How much revenue did Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden make?

$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sell?

Q: How many copies did Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sell?

231k to 376k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 231k–376k; $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–556k

best case 9.1M (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)

Games like Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–556k copies

≈ $565k–$5.0M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Cinematic (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at ≈ 6.9M–11.3M copies, ≈ $95.2M–$256.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 930 reviews in their first month; the range was 381 to 92k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cinematic (3 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Story Rich, priced around $50.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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