How much revenue did Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse sell?

Q: How many copies did Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse sell?

179k to 291k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 179k–291k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M 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 Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 95k–3.0M

best case 6.7M (Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition)

Games like Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse

A typical game among these

≈ 95k–3.0M copies

≈ $498k–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Automobile Sim (3 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: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$75.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 432 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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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