How much revenue did Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 make?

$2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 sell?

Q: How many copies did Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 sell?

598k to 972k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 598k–972k; $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before the cut; from 12k 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 Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.8M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–4.8M copies

≈ $4.7M–$38.2M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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 Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (5 of 8) and JRPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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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