How much revenue did BONELAB make?

$5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BONELAB sell?

Q: How many copies did BONELAB sell?

509k to 828k copies, based on its 21k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 509k–828k; $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut $10.2M–$23.2M before Steam's cut; from 21k 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 BONELAB and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BONELAB's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.6M

best case 4.0M (CarX Drift Racing Online)

Games like BONELAB

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–3.6M copies

≈ $15.7M–$25.2M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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: CarX Drift Racing Online at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $14.4M–$38.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (6 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Physics, priced around $17.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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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