How much revenue did NORCO make?

$331k–$891k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NORCO sell?

Q: How many copies did NORCO sell?

80k to 131k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–131k; $331k–$891k after Steam's cut $602k–$1.4M before the cut; from 3k 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 NORCO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NORCO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–5.2M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like NORCO

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–5.2M copies

≈ $20.2M–$32.3M after Steam's cut

from ~78k 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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Mystery (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + Time Travel + Episodic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2020, 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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