How much revenue did Billy Saves the World make?

$655–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Billy Saves the World sell?

Q: How many copies did Billy Saves the World sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $655–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 12 reviews (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 Billy Saves the World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Billy Saves the World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 194k–426k

best case 689k (Blasphemous 2)

Games like Billy Saves the World

The middle of these games

≈ 194k–426k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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 2 at ≈ 525k–853k copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M 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 1k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Side Scroller (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat + Fantasy, priced around $38.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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