How much revenue did Boom Blaster make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Boom Blaster sell?

Q: How many copies did Boom Blaster sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 43 reviews (Mixed)

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 Boom Blaster and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Boom Blaster's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 880k–3.8M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Boom Blaster

A typical game among these

≈ 880k–3.8M copies

≈ $6.7M–$21.9M after Steam's cut

from ~42k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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