How much revenue did Backroom make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Backroom sell?

Q: How many copies did Backroom sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Backroom and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Backroom's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–105k

best case 568k (Cultist Simulator)

Games like Backroom

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–105k copies

≈ $49k–$740k after Steam's cut

from ~390 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cultist Simulator at ≈ 433k–704k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 185 reviews in their first month; the range was 31 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (6 of 8) and Card Battler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Choices Matter, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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