How much revenue did Barbearian make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Barbearian sell?

Q: How many copies did Barbearian sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 87 reviews (Mostly 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 Barbearian and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Barbearian's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–6.5M

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like Barbearian

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–6.5M copies

≈ $14.7M–$64.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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