How much revenue did SGS NATO's Nightmare make?

$28k–$76k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SGS NATO's Nightmare sell?

Q: How many copies did SGS NATO's Nightmare sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 119 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $52k–$117k before the cut; from 119 reviews (Mostly 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 SGS NATO's Nightmare out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SGS NATO's Nightmare's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–17k

best case 163k (Twilight Struggle)

Games like SGS NATO's Nightmare

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–17k copies

≈ $26k–$128k after Steam's cut

from ~211 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: Twilight Struggle at ≈ 124k–201k copies, ≈ $340k–$915k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 95 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 377.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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 52 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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