How much revenue did Bonesaw make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bonesaw sell?

Q: How many copies did Bonesaw sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 192 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 192 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 Bonesaw and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bonesaw's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–2.5M

best case 8.9M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like Bonesaw

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–2.5M copies

≈ $6.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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 Horror (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: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.8M–11.0M copies, ≈ $46.5M–$125.1M 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 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Dark (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Buckshot Roulette 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before Steam's cut	$2.99	127k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerDark
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
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UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
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