How much revenue did Gang Beasts make?

$12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gang Beasts sell?

Q: How many copies did Gang Beasts sell?

2.3M to 3.8M copies, based on its 67k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.8M; $12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's cut $23.2M–$52.7M before the cut; from 67k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Gang Beasts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gang Beasts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.2M–21.6M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Gang Beasts

The middle of these games

≈ 12.2M–21.6M copies

≈ $63.7M–$149.3M after Steam's cut

from ~317k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Physics (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (4 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Building + Casual + Moddable; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–47.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut $147.2M–$334.8M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before the cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
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