How much revenue did Bane Murrain make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bane Murrain sell?

Q: How many copies did Bane Murrain sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (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 Bane Murrain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bane Murrain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 737k–1.4M

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like Bane Murrain

A typical game among these

≈ 737k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.8M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Firework at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 100 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10.
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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DUSK 2018	Est. copies ≈ 778k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Choo-Choo Charles 2022	Est. copies ≈ 446k–726k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Survival Horror Horror
Sally Face - Episode One 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$2.99	30k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story Rich Psychological Horror
Firework 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	44k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorIndie
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 856k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
Trepang2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 489k–795k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.7M after Steam's cut $8.6M–$19.5M before Steam's cut	$34.99	20k reviews Very Positive	ShooterSingleplayer
illWill 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $44k–$117k after Steam's cut $79k–$180k before Steam's cut	$19.99	320 reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
KINGDOM of the DEAD 2022	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $43k–$116k after Steam's cut $79k–$179k before Steam's cut	$14.99	423 reviews Mostly Positive	Boomer ShooterIndie