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How many copies did Little Nemo The Clown sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 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.

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We left Little Nemo The Clown out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Little Nemo The Clown's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 500k–679k
best case 5.8M (Celeste)
Games like Little Nemo The Clown

The middle of these games

≈ 500k–679k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Atmospheric + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 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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