How much revenue did PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist make?

$181k–$486k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist sell?

Q: How many copies did PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist sell?

82k to 134k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–134k; $181k–$486k after Steam's cut $329k–$747k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 905k–1.5M

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist

A typical game among these

≈ 905k–1.5M copies

≈ $781k–$8.8M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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 Simulation (2 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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (2 of 8) and 4 Player Local (1 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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Mountain 2014	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$0.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 2.8x vs typical 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
Sakura Clicker 2015	Est. copies ≈ 698k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Very Positive	NudityFree to Play
Forts 2017	Est. copies ≈ 876k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingMultiplayer
Duck Game 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.8M–$18.3M after Steam's cut $12.4M–$28.2M before Steam's cut	$12.99	39k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerFunny
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