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How many copies did //N.P.P.D. RUSH//- The milk of Ultraviolet sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 43k–70k
$47k–$127k after Steam's cut $86k–$196k before the cut
from 771 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left //N.P.P.D. RUSH//- The milk of Ultraviolet out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including //N.P.P.D. RUSH//- The milk of Ultraviolet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–504k
best case 2.2M (SUPERHOT)
Games like //N.P.P.D. RUSH//- The milk of Ultraviolet

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–504k copies

≈ $147k–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Bullet Hell (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: SUPERHOT at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $11.6M–$31.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Bullet Time, priced around $25.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. 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 that falls with release age, from about 38 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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