How much revenue did The Spell Brigade make?

$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Spell Brigade sell?

Q: How many copies did The Spell Brigade sell?

419k to 682k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 419k–682k; $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before Steam's cut; from 17k 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 The Spell Brigade and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Spell Brigade's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 407k–842k

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like The Spell Brigade

A typical game among these

≈ 407k–842k copies

≈ $4.0M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Co-op (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter + Looter Shooter + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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