How much revenue did BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart sell?

Q: How many copies did BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 93 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before Steam's cut; from 93 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 BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–1.8M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–1.8M copies

≈ $9.9M–$11.5M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies. 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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