How much revenue did The Brew Barons make?

$130k–$348k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Brew Barons sell?

Q: How many copies did The Brew Barons sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 864 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $130k–$348k after Steam's cut $236k–$536k before Steam's cut; from 864 reviews (Mostly 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 The Brew Barons and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Brew Barons's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.6M

best case 4.0M (The Crew™ 2)

Games like The Brew Barons

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.6M copies

≈ $16.5M–$34.7M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: The Crew™ 2 at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $25.0M–$67.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, 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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