How much revenue did Blades of Time make?

$473k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blades of Time sell?

Q: How many copies did Blades of Time sell?

172k to 280k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 172k–280k; $473k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $860k–$2.0M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Blades of Time and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blades of Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.3M

best case 9.9M (NARAKA: BLADEPOINT)

Games like Blades of Time

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.3M copies

≈ $10.3M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 33k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + Battle Royale + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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