How much revenue did Mad Bullets make?

$59k–$158k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mad Bullets sell?

Q: How many copies did Mad Bullets sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 343 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $59k–$158k after Steam's cut $107k–$243k before Steam's cut; from 343 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 Mad Bullets and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mad Bullets's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 838–163k

best case 3.7M (Call of Juarez: Gunslinger)

Games like Mad Bullets

A typical game among these

≈ 838–163k copies

≈ $2k–$809k after Steam's cut

from ~348 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $11.6M–$31.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 431.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Western + FPS, priced around $15.
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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