How much revenue did Blood West make?

$1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blood West sell?

Q: How many copies did Blood West sell?

167k to 272k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 167k–272k; $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Blood West and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Blood West's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–16.1M

best case 34.9M (Red Dead Redemption 2)

Games like Blood West

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–16.1M copies

≈ $10.0M–$103.1M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Red Dead Redemption 2 at ≈ 26.6M–43.2M copies, ≈ $438.4M–$1178.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Western (6 of 7) and Open World (5 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2020, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Red Dead Redemption 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $438.4M–$1178.6M after Steam's cut $797.0M–$1813.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	923k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldStory Rich
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood 2009	Est. copies ≈ 324k–526k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $889k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	WesternAction
12 is Better Than 6 2015	Est. copies ≈ 504k–820k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	ActionShooter
Red Dead Online 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.5M–$25.5M after Steam's cut $17.2M–$39.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	69k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldMultiplayer
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.6M–$31.1M after Steam's cut $21.0M–$47.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	44k reviews Very Positive	WesternFPS
Fallout: New Vegas 2010	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–26.9M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter