How much revenue did Beat Invaders make?

$14k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Beat Invaders sell?

Q: How many copies did Beat Invaders sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 211 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $14k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before Steam's cut; from 211 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 Beat Invaders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beat Invaders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 99k–397k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like Beat Invaders

A typical game among these

≈ 99k–397k copies

≈ $347k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.6M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 591 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Dwarf + PvE + Top-Down; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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