How much revenue did NanoApostle make?

$174k–$468k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NanoApostle sell?

Q: How many copies did NanoApostle sell?

32k to 51k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–51k; $174k–$468k after Steam's cut $317k–$720k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 NanoApostle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NanoApostle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.0M–7.0M

best case 7.3M (Path of Exile 2)

Games like NanoApostle

The middle of these games

≈ 6.0M–7.0M copies

≈ $67.4M–$95.5M after Steam's cut

from ~143k 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: Path of Exile 2 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $45.9M–$123.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 57k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 110k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Fantasy (7 of 8) and Souls-like (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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