How much revenue did The Break-In make?

$357k–$961k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Break-In sell?

Q: How many copies did The Break-In sell?

65k to 106k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–106k; $357k–$961k after Steam's cut $650k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Break-In and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including The Break-In's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.7M

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like The Break-In

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.7M copies

≈ $19.8M–$25.5M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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 6 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 6) and Horror (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped: 3 of the 6 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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