How much revenue did Brain Freeze make?

$41–$111 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Brain Freeze sell?

Q: How many copies did Brain Freeze sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $41–$111 after Steam's cut $75–$170 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Brain Freeze and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Brain Freeze's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–80k

best case 2.1M (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)

Games like Brain Freeze

A typical game among these

≈ 47k–80k copies

≈ $156k–$359k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$24.0M 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 189 reviews in their first month; the range was 144 to 731.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Anime + Visual Novel; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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