How much revenue did Barbotine make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Barbotine sell?

Q: How many copies did Barbotine sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 176 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 176 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 Barbotine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Barbotine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–222k

best case 1.1M (Superliminal)

Games like Barbotine

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–222k copies

≈ $59k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Superliminal at ≈ 848k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 724 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Surreal (7 of 8) and Psychological (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, 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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Psychopomp GOLD 2024	Est. copies ≈ 134k–218k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $332k–$892k after Steam's cut $603k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$8.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological HorrorSurreal
Hypnospace Outlaw 2019	Est. copies ≈ 160k–261k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $882k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	1990'sSimulation
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 848k–1.4M 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
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