How much revenue did Back 4 Blood make?

$30.0M–$80.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Back 4 Blood sell?

Q: How many copies did Back 4 Blood sell?

1.8M to 3.0M copies, based on its 73k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–3.0M; $30.0M–$80.8M after Steam's cut $54.6M–$124.2M before Steam's cut; from 73k 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 Back 4 Blood and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Back 4 Blood's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.9M–22.0M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Back 4 Blood

A typical game among these

≈ 8.9M–22.0M copies

≈ $148.5M–$331.4M after Steam's cut

from ~340k 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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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