How much revenue did Devolver Bootleg make?

$47k–$125k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Devolver Bootleg sell?

Q: How many copies did Devolver Bootleg sell?

34k to 55k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–55k; $47k–$125k after Steam's cut $85k–$193k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Devolver Bootleg out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Devolver Bootleg's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–536k

best case 901k (NBA 2K19)

Games like Devolver Bootleg

The middle of these games

≈ 155k–536k copies

≈ $946k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: NBA 2K19 at ≈ 686k–1.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Basketball.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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