How much revenue did Backspace Bouken make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Backspace Bouken sell?

Q: How many copies did Backspace Bouken sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before Steam's cut; from 76 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 Backspace Bouken and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Backspace Bouken's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 574k–4.4M

best case 7.4M (Path of Exile 2)

Games like Backspace Bouken

A typical game among these

≈ 574k–4.4M copies

≈ $4.6M–$53.6M after Steam's cut

from ~62k 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: Path of Exile 2 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $46.4M–$124.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 709 to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 3 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 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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