How much revenue did Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden make?

$3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sell?

Q: How many copies did Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sell?

227k to 369k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 227k–369k; $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before the cut; from 9k 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 Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 73k–549k

best case 9.0M (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)

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The middle of these games

≈ 73k–549k copies

≈ $551k–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Cinematic (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at ≈ 6.9M–11.1M copies, ≈ $94.2M–$253.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 931 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 381 to 92k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cinematic (3 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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