How much revenue did Nine Parchments make?

$896k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nine Parchments sell?

Q: How many copies did Nine Parchments sell?

163k to 265k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 163k–265k; $896k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before the cut; from 5k 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 Nine Parchments out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nine Parchments's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–7k

best case 8k (Ants Took My Eyeball)

Games like Nine Parchments

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–7k copies

≈ $11k–$34k after Steam's cut

from ~116 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ants Took My Eyeball at ≈ 6k–11k copies, ≈ $23k–$62k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 23 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 112.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Twin Stick Shooter (6 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Loot + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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