How many copies did The Expendabros sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Expendabros make?

The Expendabros is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Expendabros?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; from 18k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Expendabros and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Expendabros's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–7.9M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like The Expendabros

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–7.9M copies

≈ $17.4M–$68.6M after Steam's cut

from ~54k 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 Sandbox (3 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (3 of 8) and Action Roguelike (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
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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Trove 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	93k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
Realm of the Mad God Exalt 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	48k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsMMORPG
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut $132.2M–$300.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	249k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
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UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut $46.1M–$104.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	321k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
HoloCure - Save the Fans! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	41k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsBullet Hell
Rivals of Aether 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$29.2M after Steam's cut $19.7M–$44.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Fighting2D Fighter