How much revenue did NOSTALGIC TRAIN make?

$20k–$53k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NOSTALGIC TRAIN sell?

Q: How many copies did NOSTALGIC TRAIN sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 195 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$81k before Steam's cut; from 195 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 NOSTALGIC TRAIN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NOSTALGIC TRAIN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–226k

best case 1.5M (Gone Home)

Games like NOSTALGIC TRAIN

A typical game among these

≈ 58k–226k copies

≈ $494k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gone Home at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 330 reviews in their first month; the range was 68 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Walking Simulator (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Walking Simulator + Short, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 shipped in the last two years.

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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Gone Home 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	18k reviews Mostly Positive	Walking SimulatorShort
Sunlight 2021	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut	$3.99	468 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureExperimental
SEASON: A letter to the future 2023	Est. copies ≈ 52k–84k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $357k–$960k after Steam's cut $649k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldMystery
Shelter 2013	Est. copies ≈ 235k–382k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $968k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	AdventureSurvival
Endling - Extinction is Forever 2022	Est. copies ≈ 91k–147k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $748k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	EmotionalAdventure
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