How much revenue did Bendy and the Dark Revival make?

$2.2M–$5.9M 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?

402k to 653k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 402k–653k; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before the cut; from 16k 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 Bendy and the Dark Revival out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Bendy and the Dark Revival's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33.9M–69.8M

best case 99.2M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Bendy and the Dark Revival

The middle of these games

≈ 33.9M–69.8M copies

≈ $111.3M–$177.7M after Steam's cut

from ~1.0M reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.6M–122.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (2 of 3) and Animation & Modeling (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 ≈ 75.6M–122.8M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.4M–$307.5M after Steam's cut $207.9M–$473.1M before the cut	$19.99	839k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.9M–50.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut $77.0M–$175.1M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities