How much revenue did Blessed Surface make?

Blessed Surface is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Blessed Surface sell?

Q: How many copies did Blessed Surface sell?

922 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 922–1k; from 32 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 Blessed Surface and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blessed Surface's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–5.0M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Blessed Surface

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–5.0M copies

≈ $15.2M–$61.8M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (8 of 8) and Metroidvania (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.5M–31.6M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut $145.9M–$332.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	566k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Blasphemous 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $18.8M–$50.7M after Steam's cut $34.3M–$78.0M before Steam's cut	$34.99	68k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
Nine Sols 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut $17.0M–$38.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	46k reviews Very Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut $69.8M–$158.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	184k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike
Bloody Hell 2023	Est. copies ≈ 174k–284k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet Hell Metroidvania
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	46k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist
Salt and Sanctuary 2016	Est. copies ≈ 915k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania
Under The Ghost Mountain 2021	Est. copies ≈ 868–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $237–$636 after Steam's cut $430–$978 before Steam's cut	$0.99	35 reviews Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike