How much revenue did Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale make?

Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale sell?

Q: How many copies did Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale sell?

201k to 327k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 201k–327k; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 310k–21.5M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale

A typical game among these

≈ 310k–21.5M copies

from ~99k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 850 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 76k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Battle Royale (8 of 8) and FPS (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 28x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Z1 Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.0M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Mixed	SurvivalMassively Multiplayer
Ring of Elysium 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	99k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
SOS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 204k–332k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mostly Negative	SurvivalAction
Battle of Hunters : Beast Zone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	65 reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Cyber Hunter 2020	Est. copies ≈ 269k–437k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Fear The Wolves 2019	Est. copies ≈ 98k–160k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mixed	Battle RoyaleSurvival