How much revenue did Ninja Village make?

$36k–$96k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ninja Village sell?

Q: How many copies did Ninja Village sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 582 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $36k–$96k after Steam's cut $65k–$148k before the cut; from 582 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 Ninja Village out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ninja Village's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–1.0M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Ninja Village

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–1.0M copies

≈ $15k–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Base-Building (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: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 217 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (4 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 38 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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