How much revenue did Bard Harder! make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bard Harder! sell?

Q: How many copies did Bard Harder! sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 137 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 137 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 Bard Harder! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bard Harder!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 204k–389k

best case 726k (The NOexistenceN of you AND me)

Games like Bard Harder!

A typical game among these

≈ 204k–389k copies

≈ $1.4M–$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: The NOexistenceN of you AND me at ≈ 553k–898k copies, ≈ $303k–$813k 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 247 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $2. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Interactive Fiction + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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