How much revenue did Nubs! Arena make?

Nubs! Arena is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Nubs! Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did Nubs! Arena sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 990 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; from 990 reviews (Mixed)

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 Nubs! Arena out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nubs! Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–5.1M

best case 37.1M (Rocket League®)

Games like Nubs! Arena

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–5.1M copies

≈ $15.0M–$30.1M after Steam's cut

from ~81k 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 4 Player Local (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: Rocket League® at ≈ 28.3M–46.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 4 Player Local (4 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Competitive. The breakout hits carry Football (Soccer) + Competitive + Sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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