How much revenue did Broken Lines make?

$119k–$321k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Broken Lines sell?

Q: How many copies did Broken Lines sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 700 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $119k–$321k after Steam's cut $217k–$493k before Steam's cut; from 700 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 Broken Lines and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Lines's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.2M–14.8M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Broken Lines

A typical game among these

≈ 6.2M–14.8M copies

≈ $102.2M–$285.3M after Steam's cut

from ~270k 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 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share War (6 of 8) and Grand Strategy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Vehicular Combat + Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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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