How much revenue did BURIED STARS make?

$619k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BURIED STARS sell?

Q: How many copies did BURIED STARS sell?

56k to 91k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–91k; $619k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid BURIED STARS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BURIED STARS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 141k–249k

best case 1.5M (STEINS;GATE)

Games like BURIED STARS

A typical game among these

≈ 141k–249k copies

≈ $632k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: STEINS;GATE at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.3M–$25.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 427 reviews in their first month; the range was 94 to 564.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (7 of 8) and Story Rich (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Time Travel + Great Soundtrack + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 52 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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