How much revenue did Broken Age make?

$1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Broken Age sell?

Q: How many copies did Broken Age sell?

461k to 750k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 461k–750k; $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Broken Age and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Age's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–19.3M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Broken Age

A typical game among these

≈ 5.4M–19.3M copies

≈ $62.7M–$84.9M after Steam's cut

from ~100k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2022, 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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