How much revenue did The Sexy Brutale make?

$790k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Sexy Brutale sell?

Q: How many copies did The Sexy Brutale sell?

144k to 233k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 144k–233k; $790k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M 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 The Sexy Brutale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sexy Brutale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–50k

best case 264k (Twelve Minutes)

Games like The Sexy Brutale

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–50k copies

≈ $123k–$696k after Steam's cut

from ~573 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Twelve Minutes at ≈ 201k–327k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 120 reviews in their first month; the range was 67 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Puzzle, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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Hourglass 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before Steam's cut	$19.99	404 reviews Very Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Homebody 2023	Est. copies ≈ 18k–30k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $101k–$272k after Steam's cut $184k–$418k before Steam's cut	$19.99	741 reviews Very Positive	Psychological Horror Puzzle
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Twelve Minutes 2021	Est. copies ≈ 201k–327k 14x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAdventure
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