How much revenue did City of Beats make?

$19k–$51k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City of Beats sell?

Q: How many copies did City of Beats sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 140 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before the cut; from 140 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 City of Beats out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City of Beats's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–4.2M

best case 3.8M (Brotato)

Games like City of Beats

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–4.2M copies

≈ $7.1M–$10.4M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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: Brotato at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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