How much revenue did Banzai Escape make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Banzai Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did Banzai Escape sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 168 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$56k before Steam's cut; from 168 reviews (Mixed)

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 Banzai Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Banzai Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 100k–161k

best case 436k (Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition)

Games like Banzai Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 100k–161k copies

≈ $911k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 332k–539k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 243 reviews in their first month; the range was 132 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (5 of 8) and On-Rails Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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