How much revenue did Brain Meltdown - Into Despair make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Brain Meltdown - Into Despair sell?

Q: How many copies did Brain Meltdown - Into Despair sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 248 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 248 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 Brain Meltdown - Into Despair and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Brain Meltdown - Into Despair's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–302k

best case 918k (Night in the Woods)

Games like Brain Meltdown - Into Despair

A typical game among these

≈ 175k–302k copies

≈ $1.7M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Night in the Woods at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 637 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Dark Humor, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Stylized + Dark Humor + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 52 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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