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How many copies did Broken Pieces sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 13k–22k
$37k–$99k after Steam's cut $67k–$153k before the cut
from 543 reviews (Mostly 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 Broken Pieces out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Pieces's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 150k–218k
best case 1.2M (Mouthwashing)
Games like Broken Pieces

The middle of these games

≈ 150k–218k copies

≈ $686k–$1.5M 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: Mouthwashing at ≈ 952k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 670 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 94 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Mystery (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Retro + Psychological + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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