How much revenue did Nuclear Nightmare make?

$907k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nuclear Nightmare sell?

Q: How many copies did Nuclear Nightmare sell?

472k to 767k copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 472k–767k; $907k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.8M before the cut; from 19k 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 Nuclear Nightmare out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nuclear Nightmare's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–25.2M

best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Nuclear Nightmare

The middle of these games

≈ 7.6M–25.2M copies

≈ $70.6M–$233.6M after Steam's cut

from ~276k 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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.7M–108.4M copies, ≈ $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 48k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 2 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 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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