How much revenue did Two Brain Sides make?

$115–$309 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Two Brain Sides sell?

Q: How many copies did Two Brain Sides sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $115–$309 after Steam's cut $209–$475 before Steam's cut; from 17 reviews (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 Two Brain Sides and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Two Brain Sides's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 241k–359k

best case 2.1M (Super Hexagon)

Games like Two Brain Sides

A typical game among these

≈ 241k–359k copies

≈ $405k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rhythm (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: Super Hexagon at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 680 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (3 of 8) and Abstract (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Experimental + Building, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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 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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