How much revenue did NieR:Automata™ make?

$57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NieR:Automata™ sell?

Q: How many copies did NieR:Automata™ sell?

5.3M to 8.6M copies, based on its 153k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.3M–8.6M; $57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's cut $105.3M–$239.5M before the cut; from 153k 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 NieR:Automata™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NieR:Automata™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.9M

best case 4.0M (Hades II)

Games like NieR:Automata™

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.9M copies

≈ $15.7M–$33.7M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: Hades II at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (5 of 8) and Hack and Slash (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Rogue-lite, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 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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