How much revenue did The Monster Breeder make?

$56k–$151k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Monster Breeder sell?

Q: How many copies did The Monster Breeder sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 275 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $56k–$151k after Steam's cut $102k–$233k before the cut; from 275 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 The Monster Breeder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Monster Breeder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114k–150k

best case 204k (Empire of Sin)

Games like The Monster Breeder

The middle of these games

≈ 114k–150k copies

≈ $823k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Empire of Sin at ≈ 156k–253k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 968 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (5 of 8) and Tactical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crime + Management, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 43 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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