How much revenue did Brian the Brain make?

$47–$127 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Brian the Brain sell?

Q: How many copies did Brian the Brain sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $47–$127 after Steam's cut $86–$195 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Brian the Brain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Brian the Brain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 192k–332k

best case 1.0M (Crab Champions)

Games like Brian the Brain

A typical game among these

≈ 192k–332k copies

≈ $858k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Crab Champions at ≈ 774k–1.3M copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 737 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Soundtrack (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Soundtrack, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Crab Champions 2023	Est. copies ≈ 774k–1.3M 5.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	31k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike
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