How much revenue did Nebula Flow make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nebula Flow sell?

Q: How many copies did Nebula Flow sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 39 reviews (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 Nebula Flow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nebula Flow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–521k

best case 1.7M (Crypt of the NecroDancer)

Games like Nebula Flow

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–521k copies

≈ $336k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crypt of the NecroDancer at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	560 reviews Mostly Negative	IndieMusic
Crypt of the NecroDancer 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.0M before the cut	$14.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RhythmFemale Protagonist
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AudioSurf 2008	Est. copies ≈ 701k–1.1M 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before the cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm
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