How much revenue did The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game sell?

279k to 454k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 279k–454k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before the cut; from 8k 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 The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–15.5M

best case 56.1M (Warframe)

Games like The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–15.5M copies

≈ $44.5M–$81.7M after Steam's cut

from ~132k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Third Person (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Warframe at ≈ 42.7M–69.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third Person (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 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 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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