How much revenue did Blade and Sorcery make?

$12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blade and Sorcery sell?

Q: How many copies did Blade and Sorcery sell?

1.5M to 2.5M copies, based on its 62k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.5M–2.5M; $12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.7M before Steam's cut; from 62k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Blade and Sorcery and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blade and Sorcery's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–336k

best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)

Games like Blade and Sorcery

A typical game among these

≈ 58k–336k copies

≈ $540k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 224 reviews in their first month; the range was 178 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (6 of 8) and Gore (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 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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