How much revenue did They Bleed Pixels make?

$443k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did They Bleed Pixels sell?

Q: How many copies did They Bleed Pixels sell?

161k to 262k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 161k–262k; $443k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $806k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 They Bleed Pixels and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including They Bleed Pixels's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.1M

best case 2.9M (Katana ZERO)

Games like They Bleed Pixels

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–3.1M copies

≈ $14.8M–$25.7M after Steam's cut

from ~65k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Gore (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Katana ZERO at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 187 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (4 of 8) and Lovecraftian (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Blasphemous 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $18.8M–$50.7M after Steam's cut $34.3M–$78.0M before Steam's cut	$34.99	68k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
Broforce 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	61k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AmericaAction
Madshot: Road to Madness 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$2.99	57 reviews Mixed	GoreShooter
CARRION 2020	Est. copies ≈ 895k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistPixel Graphics
Marrow 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut	$9.99	61 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction
Katana ZERO 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsAction
Elderand 2023	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $112k–$302k after Steam's cut $204k–$465k before Steam's cut	$19.99	824 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGMetroidvania
Madshot 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7k–12k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$161k before Steam's cut	$19.99	286 reviews Very Positive	PlatformerLovecraftian