How much revenue did Insect: Bombardier beetle make?

$81–$220 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Insect: Bombardier beetle sell?

Q: How many copies did Insect: Bombardier beetle sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $81–$220 after Steam's cut $148–$338 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Insect: Bombardier beetle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insect: Bombardier beetle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 659–11k

best case 30k (Europa)

Games like Insect: Bombardier beetle

A typical game among these

≈ 659–11k copies

≈ $1k–$48k after Steam's cut

from ~26 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Europa at ≈ 23k–37k copies, ≈ $94k–$253k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 388.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + 3D Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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