How much revenue did Bad Business make?

$196–$527 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Business sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Business sell?

720 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 720–1k; $196–$527 after Steam's cut $356–$811 before Steam's cut; from 25 reviews (Mostly 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 Bad Business and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Business's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–136k

best case 662k (12 is Better Than 6)

Games like Bad Business

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–136k copies

≈ $161k–$789k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 12 is Better Than 6 at ≈ 504k–820k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 293 reviews in their first month; the range was 62 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Violent (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Western, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
12 is Better Than 6 2015	Est. copies ≈ 504k–820k 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	ActionShooter
APE OUT 2019	Est. copies ≈ 119k–193k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $490k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $891k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ViolentIndie
OTXO 2023	Est. copies ≈ 99k–160k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $407k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $740k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeTop-Down Shooter
GARAGE: Bad Trip 2018	Est. copies ≈ 25k–40k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $102k–$275k after Steam's cut $186k–$423k before Steam's cut	$14.99	817 reviews Mixed	GoreAction
Mr. Fast 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before Steam's cut	$4.99	186 reviews Very Positive	Bullet TimeTwin Stick Shooter
The Hong Kong Massacre 2019	Est. copies ≈ 59k–96k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $324k–$870k after Steam's cut $589k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionBullet Time
Bloodroots 2021	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $42k–$114k after Steam's cut $77k–$175k before Steam's cut	$19.99	311 reviews Very Positive	ViolentDifficult
Suit for Hire 2025	Est. copies ≈ 83k–135k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $342k–$919k after Steam's cut $622k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction