How much revenue did BURIED STARS make?

$616k–$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; $616k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 2k 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 BURIED STARS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BURIED STARS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–248k

best case 1.5M (STEINS;GATE)

Games like BURIED STARS

The middle of these games

≈ 138k–248k copies

≈ $625k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: STEINS;GATE at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.3M–$24.9M 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 428 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 94 to 565.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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