How much revenue did Lab BreakOut make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lab BreakOut sell?

Q: How many copies did Lab BreakOut sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 21 reviews (Mixed)

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 Lab BreakOut and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lab BreakOut's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–17k

best case 45k (Mind Spheres)

Games like Lab BreakOut

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–17k copies

≈ $12k–$62k after Steam's cut

from ~264 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: Mind Spheres at ≈ 35k–56k copies, ≈ $47k–$128k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 47 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 113.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Physics, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Mind Spheres 2016	Est. copies ≈ 35k–56k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $47k–$128k after Steam's cut $86k–$196k before Steam's cut	$4.99	832 reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzlePhysics
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