How much revenue did NERVE make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NERVE sell?

Q: How many copies did NERVE sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 51 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left NERVE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NERVE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–79k

best case 456k (Haste)

Games like NERVE

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–79k copies

≈ $34k–$107k after Steam's cut

from ~905 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Haste at ≈ 347k–564k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 257 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (7 of 8) and Runner (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + 3D Platformer + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 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 70 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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Haste 2025	Est. copies ≈ 347k–564k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before the cut	$19.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Fast-PacedAction
Boson X 2014	Est. copies ≈ 89k–144k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $122k–$327k after Steam's cut $221k–$503k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	DifficultAction
Neodash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut	$15.99	519 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Vecter 2020	Est. copies ≈ 72k–117k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to PlayRacing
oO 2015	Est. copies ≈ 47k–77k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut	$0.99	971 reviews Very Positive	DifficultArcade
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