How much revenue did The Legend of Bum-Bo make?

$705k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Legend of Bum-Bo sell?

Q: How many copies did The Legend of Bum-Bo sell?

171k to 278k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 171k–278k; $705k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 The Legend of Bum-Bo and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Legend of Bum-Bo's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–7.4M

best case 29.7M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like The Legend of Bum-Bo

A typical game among these

≈ 3.2M–7.4M copies

≈ $23.7M–$59.0M after Steam's cut

from ~127k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.8M copies, ≈ $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Card Game (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Survival + Open World Survival Craft + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2026, 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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