How much revenue did Neon Noodles make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Neon Noodles sell?

Q: How many copies did Neon Noodles sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 110 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut; from 110 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 Neon Noodles out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Neon Noodles's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–45k

best case 198k (Arctic Eggs)

Games like Neon Noodles

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–45k copies

≈ $67k–$322k after Steam's cut

from ~706 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Automation (4 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: Arctic Eggs at ≈ 151k–245k copies, ≈ $415k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 209 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 112 to 921.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (4 of 8) and Cooking (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cooking + Physics, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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 38 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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