How much revenue did Broken Pieces make?

$37k–$100k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Broken Pieces sell?

Q: How many copies did Broken Pieces sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 547 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $37k–$100k after Steam's cut $68k–$154k before Steam's cut; from 547 reviews (Mostly 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 Broken Pieces and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Pieces's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–161k

best case 240k (INMOST)

Games like Broken Pieces

A typical game among these

≈ 149k–161k copies

≈ $560k–$1.5M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: INMOST at ≈ 183k–297k copies, ≈ $753k–$2.0M 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 670 reviews in their first month; the range was 94 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Mystery (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Exploration, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Thriller + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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