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How many copies did Bloody Service sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 818–1k
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut
from 33 reviews (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 Bloody Service and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bloody Service's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–288k
best case 419k (Late Shift)
Games like Bloody Service

A typical game among these

≈ 111k–288k copies

≈ $645k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Late Shift at ≈ 319k–518k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 334 reviews in their first month; the range was 104 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FMV (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + FMV, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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