How much revenue did Nyan Cat: Lost In Space make?

$136k–$367k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nyan Cat: Lost In Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Nyan Cat: Lost In Space sell?

99k to 162k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99k–162k; $136k–$367k after Steam's cut $248k–$564k before the cut; from 2k 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 Nyan Cat: Lost In Space out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nyan Cat: Lost In Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.1M

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–3.1M copies

≈ $7.8M–$20.5M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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.

Best case: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 8k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and Cats (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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