How much revenue did The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool make?

$499–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool sell?

Q: How many copies did The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool sell?

202 to 328 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 202–328; $499–$1k after Steam's cut $908–$2k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 367k–732k

best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)

Games like The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool

The middle of these games

≈ 367k–732k copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M 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 621 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Multiple Endings, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Life Sim + Dating Sim + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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