How much revenue did Nodes Escape make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nodes Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did Nodes Escape sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 551 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 551 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 Nodes Escape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nodes Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–62k

best case 113k (CaseCracker)

Games like Nodes Escape

The middle of these games

≈ 26k–62k copies

≈ $50k–$180k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: CaseCracker at ≈ 86k–140k copies, ≈ $236k–$635k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 285 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 34 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Word Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Text-Based + Detective, priced around $10.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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