How much revenue did Backroom Company make?

$44k–$118k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Backroom Company sell?

Q: How many copies did Backroom Company sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 716 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $44k–$118k after Steam's cut $80k–$182k before Steam's cut; from 716 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 Backroom Company and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Backroom Company's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16.3M–40.4M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Backroom Company

A typical game among these

≈ 16.3M–40.4M copies

≈ $128.7M–$275.6M after Steam's cut

from ~544k 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 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (7 of 7) and Survival (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2026, and 1 of the 7 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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