How much revenue did Baldi's Basics Plus make?

$800k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Baldi's Basics Plus sell?

Q: How many copies did Baldi's Basics Plus sell?

291k to 473k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 291k–473k; $800k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut; from 12k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Baldi's Basics Plus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Baldi's Basics Plus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–302k

best case 550k (We Happy Few)

Games like Baldi's Basics Plus

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–302k copies

≈ $748k–$2.3M 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: We Happy Few at ≈ 419k–681k copies, ≈ $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 867 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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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