How much revenue did B.I.O.T.A. make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did B.I.O.T.A. sell?

Q: How many copies did B.I.O.T.A. sell?

6k to 11k copies, based on its 261 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–11k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $32k–$74k before Steam's cut; from 261 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 B.I.O.T.A. and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including B.I.O.T.A.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–66k

best case 166k (Hidden Deep)

Games like B.I.O.T.A.

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–66k copies

≈ $41k–$534k after Steam's cut

from ~413 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hidden Deep at ≈ 127k–206k copies, ≈ $869k–$2.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 206 reviews in their first month; the range was 68 to 819.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Physics, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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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