How much revenue did Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor make?

$295k–$792k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor sell?

Q: How many copies did Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor sell?

54k to 87k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–87k; $295k–$792k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 958k–6.0M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor

The middle of these games

≈ 958k–6.0M copies

≈ $7.6M–$67.3M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.2M–28.0M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut $517.2M–$1176.7M before the cut	$59.99	415k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Elite Dangerous 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.2M–8.5M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.8M–$77.4M after Steam's cut $52.3M–$119.1M before the cut	$19.99	107k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSpace
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