How much revenue did BONEWORKS make?

$8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BONEWORKS sell?

Q: How many copies did BONEWORKS sell?

1.1M to 1.7M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.7M; $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut $15.8M–$35.8M before Steam's cut; from 36k 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 BONEWORKS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BONEWORKS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.8M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like BONEWORKS

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–3.8M copies

≈ $23.5M–$47.7M after Steam's cut

from ~86k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and VR (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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