How much revenue did MADNESS: Project Nexus make?

$3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MADNESS: Project Nexus sell?

Q: How many copies did MADNESS: Project Nexus sell?

435k to 706k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 435k–706k; $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.4M before the cut; from 18k 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 MADNESS: Project Nexus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MADNESS: Project Nexus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.5M–10.7M

best case 31.7M (Dying Light)

Games like MADNESS: Project Nexus

The middle of these games

≈ 6.5M–10.7M copies

≈ $74.3M–$305.8M after Steam's cut

from ~203k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.1M–39.2M copies, ≈ $165.8M–$445.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 47k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 33k to 128k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third Person (5 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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