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How many copies did SOULBOUND sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 177k–463k
best case 2.5M (Blasphemous)
Games like SOULBOUND

The middle of these games

≈ 177k–463k copies

≈ $1.3M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Blasphemous at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies, ≈ $13.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 464 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 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 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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