How much revenue did Nidhogg make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nidhogg sell?

Q: How many copies did Nidhogg sell?

443k to 720k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 443k–720k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M 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 Nidhogg out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nidhogg's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–42k

best case 276k (Hellish Quart)

Games like Nidhogg

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–42k copies

≈ $61k–$237k after Steam's cut

from ~668 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: Hellish Quart at ≈ 211k–342k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M 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 228 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 29 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Swordplay (5 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting, priced around $19. The breakout hits carry Fighting + VR + Violent; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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Griefhelm 2020	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before the cut	$9.99	313 reviews Mostly Positive	Co-op CampaignLocal Co-Op
GORN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 237k–385k 12x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before the cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
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