How much revenue did BURNT ASHES make?

$51–$138 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BURNT ASHES sell?

Q: How many copies did BURNT ASHES sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $51–$138 after Steam's cut $93–$212 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 181k–437k

best case 512k (Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)

Games like BURNT ASHES

A typical game among these

≈ 181k–437k copies

≈ $1.1M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (4 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: Bomb Rush Cyberfunk at ≈ 390k–634k copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 6k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Walking Simulator (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Parkour, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 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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