How much revenue did Brány Skeldalu make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Brány Skeldalu sell?

Q: How many copies did Brány Skeldalu sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 90 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 90 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 Brány Skeldalu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Brány Skeldalu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–17k

best case 881k (Darkest Dungeon® II)

Games like Brány Skeldalu

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–17k copies

≈ $3k–$87k after Steam's cut

from ~106 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Darkest Dungeon® II at ≈ 671k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 30 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 8k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Darkest Dungeon® II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 671k–1.1M 255x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Mostly Positive	Turn-Based Tactics Dungeon Crawler
Grim Tides - Old School RPG 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$5.99	41 reviews Positive	RPGDungeon Crawler
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