How much revenue did Nitrojet make?

$340–$918 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nitrojet sell?

Q: How many copies did Nitrojet sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 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 Nitrojet out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nitrojet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–16.7M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Nitrojet

The middle of these games

≈ 4.3M–16.7M copies

≈ $57.1M–$135.3M after Steam's cut

from ~146k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Metroidvania (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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.9M–$80.3M after Steam's cut $54.3M–$123.5M before the cut	$29.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulMetroidvania
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.2M–31.3M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut $144.2M–$328.1M before the cut	$14.99	559k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Blasphemous 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $13.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut $24.1M–$54.7M before the cut	$24.99	67k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackAtmospheric
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.3M–33.0M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut $253.8M–$577.4M before the cut	$24.99	416k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.4M–$149.0M after Steam's cut $100.7M–$229.2M before the cut	$39.99	175k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like
Just Cause™ 3 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $34.3M–$92.2M after Steam's cut $62.4M–$141.9M before the cut	$19.99	128k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
FoxPaww: a furry breakout-lite adventure 2021	Est. copies ≈ 248–403 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $68–$181 after Steam's cut $123–$279 before the cut	$0.99	10 reviews Positive	NonlinearRogue-lite