How much revenue did The Break-In make?

$356k–$957k 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 105k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–105k; $356k–$957k after Steam's cut $647k–$1.5M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Break-In out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including The Break-In's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.7M

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like The Break-In

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–2.7M copies

≈ $19.5M–$24.7M after Steam's cut

from ~65k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.2M–$30.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 6) and Horror (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
The era: 3 of your 6 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche 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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