How much revenue did No Rest for the Wicked make?

$22.1M–$59.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did No Rest for the Wicked sell?

Q: How many copies did No Rest for the Wicked sell?

2.0M to 3.3M copies, based on its 81k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.3M; $22.1M–$59.4M after Steam's cut $40.2M–$91.4M before the cut; from 81k 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 No Rest for the Wicked out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including No Rest for the Wicked's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 205k–1.2M

best case 2.8M (STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™)

Games like No Rest for the Wicked

The middle of these games

≈ 205k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.8M–$11.4M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies, ≈ $41.0M–$110.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Third Person, priced around $70.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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