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 the cut; from 25 reviews (Mostly 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 Bad Business out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Business's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–136k

best case 660k (12 is Better Than 6)

Games like Bad Business

The middle of these games

≈ 27k–136k copies

≈ $161k–$785k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 12 is Better Than 6 at ≈ 503k–817k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Violent (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Western, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
12 is Better Than 6 2015	Est. copies ≈ 503k–817k 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before the cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	ActionShooter
APE OUT 2019	Est. copies ≈ 119k–193k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $489k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $889k–$2.0M before the cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ViolentIndie
OTXO 2023	Est. copies ≈ 98k–159k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $405k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $736k–$1.7M before the 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 the 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 the cut	$4.99	186 reviews Very Positive	Bullet TimeTwin Stick Shooter
The Hong Kong Massacre 2019	Est. copies ≈ 58k–95k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $321k–$864k after Steam's cut $584k–$1.3M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionBullet Time
Bloodroots 2021	Est. copies ≈ 8k–12k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $42k–$113k after Steam's cut $77k–$174k before the cut	$19.99	309 reviews Very Positive	ViolentDifficult
Suit for Hire 2025	Est. copies ≈ 82k–134k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $340k–$913k after Steam's cut $617k–$1.4M before the cut	$14.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction