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How many copies did King of the Bridge sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 44k–71k
$36k–$97k after Steam's cut $66k–$150k before Steam's cut
from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 King of the Bridge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including King of the Bridge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–40k
best case 293k (5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel)
Games like King of the Bridge

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–40k copies

≈ $10k–$103k after Steam's cut

from ~827 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at ≈ 223k–362k copies, ≈ $735k–$2.0M after Steam's cut. 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 130 reviews in their first month; the range was 78 to 835.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Chess (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Chess + Time Travel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Time Travel + Time Manipulation + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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