How much revenue did The Broken Ceiling make?

$387–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Broken Ceiling sell?

Q: How many copies did The Broken Ceiling sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $387–$1k after Steam's cut $704–$2k before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (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 Broken Ceiling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Broken Ceiling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–254k

best case 1.1M (Darkwood)

Games like The Broken Ceiling

A typical game among these

≈ 68k–254k copies

≈ $337k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: Darkwood at ≈ 861k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Lovecraftian (5 of 8) and Top-Down (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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