How much revenue did Nuclear Throne make?

$3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nuclear Throne sell?

Q: How many copies did Nuclear Throne sell?

965k to 1.6M copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 965k–1.6M; $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before the cut; from 20k 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 Nuclear Throne out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nuclear Throne's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–7.6M

best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Nuclear Throne

The middle of these games

≈ 3.3M–7.6M copies

≈ $15.5M–$49.4M after Steam's cut

from ~89k 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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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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