How much revenue did A Guidebook of Babel make?

$185k–$496k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Guidebook of Babel sell?

Q: How many copies did A Guidebook of Babel sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $185k–$496k after Steam's cut $336k–$763k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 A Guidebook of Babel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Guidebook of Babel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–207k

best case 826k (Braid)

Games like A Guidebook of Babel

A typical game among these

≈ 68k–207k copies

≈ $206k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Braid at ≈ 629k–1.0M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 127 reviews in their first month; the range was 26 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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