How many copies did Beat Around The Bush sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 717 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Beat Around The Bush make?

Beat Around The Bush is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Beat Around The Bush?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 18k–29k; from 717 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 Beat Around The Bush and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beat Around The Bush's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–47k

best case 458k (Nodebuster)

Games like Beat Around The Bush

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–47k copies

≈ $11k–$57k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nodebuster at ≈ 349k–567k copies, ≈ $287k–$771k 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 361 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Idler (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Arcade, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Clicker + 2D + Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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