How much revenue did Beat The Game make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Beat The Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Beat The Game sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 185 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 185 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 Beat The Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beat The Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–118k

best case 258k (Figment)

Games like Beat The Game

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–118k copies

≈ $182k–$597k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Figment at ≈ 196k–319k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 195 reviews in their first month; the range was 120 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Surreal (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Hand-drawn, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 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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