How much revenue did BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk make?

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk sell?

Q: How many copies did BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk sell?

145k to 235k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 145k–235k; $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.9M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 168k–962k

best case 2.4M (CODE VEIN)

Games like BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk

A typical game among these

≈ 168k–962k copies

≈ $1.1M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

Best case: CODE VEIN at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 927 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (5 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Anime, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 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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