How much revenue did iBLiS make?

$54k–$146k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did iBLiS sell?

Q: How many copies did iBLiS sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 795 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $54k–$146k after Steam's cut $98k–$224k before Steam's cut; from 795 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 iBLiS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including iBLiS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–4.1M

best case 4.1M (Buckshot Roulette)

Games like iBLiS

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–4.1M copies

≈ $644k–$11.7M after Steam's cut

from ~66k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Buckshot Roulette at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 3 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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Buckshot Roulette 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 1.9x 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
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