How much revenue did Broken Edge make?

$69k–$185k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Broken Edge sell?

Q: How many copies did Broken Edge sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 674 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $69k–$185k after Steam's cut $125k–$285k before Steam's cut; from 674 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 Broken Edge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Edge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–90k

best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)

Games like Broken Edge

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–90k copies

≈ $33k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~236 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: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Swordplay (5 of 8) and VR (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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