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How many copies did BURN sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 670–1k
$551–$1k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut
from 27 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 BURN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BURN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.7M–5.2M
best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)
Games like BURN

A typical game among these

≈ 3.7M–5.2M copies

≈ $30.4M–$69.5M after Steam's cut

from ~122k 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.

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M 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 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 68k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Visual Novel + Anime + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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