How much revenue did The Burst make?

$9k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Burst sell?

Q: How many copies did The Burst sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 87 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 Burst and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Burst's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 256k–696k

best case 1.3M (Pavlov)

Games like The Burst

A typical game among these

≈ 256k–696k copies

≈ $2.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Pavlov at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 656 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Shooter, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 5 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 43 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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