How much revenue did BUSTAFELLOWS make?

$284k–$764k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BUSTAFELLOWS sell?

Q: How many copies did BUSTAFELLOWS sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $284k–$764k after Steam's cut $517k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 BUSTAFELLOWS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BUSTAFELLOWS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 43k–212k

best case 557k (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Games like BUSTAFELLOWS

A typical game among these

≈ 43k–212k copies

≈ $428k–$961k 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.

Best case: Hatoful Boyfriend at ≈ 425k–690k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (8 of 8) and Otome (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Dating Sim, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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