How much revenue did A Guidebook of Babel make?

$183k–$491k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Guidebook of Babel sell?

Q: How many copies did A Guidebook of Babel sell?

44k to 72k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–72k; $183k–$491k after Steam's cut $332k–$755k before the cut; from 2k 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 A Guidebook of Babel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Guidebook of Babel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 119k–244k

best case 826k (Braid)

Games like A Guidebook of Babel

The middle of these games

≈ 119k–244k copies

≈ $917k–$2.3M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Braid at ≈ 629k–1.0M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 127 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, 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 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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