How much revenue did The Final Boss make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Final Boss sell?

Q: How many copies did The Final Boss sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 73 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 The Final Boss and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Final Boss's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 215k–351k

best case 2.6M (Street Fighter™ 6)

Games like The Final Boss

A typical game among these

≈ 215k–351k copies

≈ $2.1M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Street Fighter™ 6 at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Fighter (8 of 8) and Arcade (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter + Fighting, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + PvP + Competitive; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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