How much revenue did Ben and Ed make?

$662k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ben and Ed sell?

Q: How many copies did Ben and Ed sell?

241k to 392k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 241k–392k; $662k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Ben and Ed and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ben and Ed's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.9M–19.2M

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like Ben and Ed

A typical game among these

≈ 8.9M–19.2M copies

≈ $122.8M–$273.9M after Steam's cut

from ~261k 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 Co-op (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: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 72k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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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