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How many copies did Neighbours back From Hell sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 132k–214k
$544k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $989k–$2.2M before the cut
from 5k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65–309
best case 38.6M (Portal 2)
Games like Neighbours back From Hell

The middle of these games

≈ 65–309 copies

≈ $56–$752 after Steam's cut

from ~3 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 3 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Platformer + Dark Humor + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 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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