How much revenue did The Monster Breeder make?

$57k–$153k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Monster Breeder sell?

Q: How many copies did The Monster Breeder sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 278 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $103k–$235k before Steam's cut; from 278 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 Monster Breeder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Monster Breeder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114k–151k

best case 208k (Empire of Sin)

Games like The Monster Breeder

A typical game among these

≈ 114k–151k copies

≈ $827k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Empire of Sin at ≈ 158k–257k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 967 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (5 of 8) and Tactical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crime + Management, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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