How much revenue did Beer Factory make?

$191k–$515k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Beer Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Beer Factory sell?

37k to 60k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–60k; $191k–$515k after Steam's cut $348k–$792k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Beer Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beer Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–107k

best case 10.4M (Schedule I)

Games like Beer Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 97k–107k copies

≈ $748k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies, ≈ $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 661 to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (7 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Multiplayer + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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