How much revenue did Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes make?

$3.4M–$9.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes sell?

Q: How many copies did Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes sell?

835k to 1.4M copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 835k–1.4M; $3.4M–$9.3M after Steam's cut $6.3M–$14.2M before the cut; from 17k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.0M–21.4M

best case 29.7M (Among Us)

Games like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

The middle of these games

≈ 8.0M–21.4M copies

≈ $57.3M–$95.5M after Steam's cut

from ~247k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: Among Us at ≈ 22.7M–36.8M copies, ≈ $31.1M–$83.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and 2D Fighter (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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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Among Us 2018	Est. copies ≈ 22.7M–36.8M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $31.1M–$83.6M after Steam's cut $56.5M–$128.6M before the cut	$4.99	745k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerSocial Deduction
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