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How many copies did Battle Ram sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 66k–108k
$546k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $993k–$2.3M before the cut
from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–43k
best case 121k (Astebreed: Definitive Edition)
Games like Battle Ram

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–43k copies

≈ $2k–$167k after Steam's cut

from ~124 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Bullet Hell (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: Astebreed: Definitive Edition at ≈ 93k–150k copies, ≈ $509k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 26 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 767.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Spectacle fighter + Shoot 'Em Up, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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