How much revenue did Nirvana Pilot Yume make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nirvana Pilot Yume sell?

Q: How many copies did Nirvana Pilot Yume sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 131 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 131 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 Nirvana Pilot Yume out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nirvana Pilot Yume's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–45k

best case 307k (OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition)

Games like Nirvana Pilot Yume

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–45k copies

≈ $146k–$348k after Steam's cut

from ~840 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition at ≈ 234k–381k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 117 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 60 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Anime + Free to Play + Emotional; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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