How much revenue did Bendy and the Dark Revival make?

$2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bendy and the Dark Revival sell?

Q: How many copies did Bendy and the Dark Revival sell?

406k to 659k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 406k–659k; $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.2M before Steam's cut; from 16k 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 Bendy and the Dark Revival and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Bendy and the Dark Revival's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34.0M–70.2M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Bendy and the Dark Revival

A typical game among these

≈ 34.0M–70.2M copies

≈ $111.7M–$178.3M after Steam's cut

from ~1.0M 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (2 of 3) and Animation & Modeling (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 61 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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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–33.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	842k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities