How much revenue did Two Brain Sides make?

$115–$309 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Two Brain Sides sell?

Q: How many copies did Two Brain Sides sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $115–$309 after Steam's cut $209–$475 before the cut; from 17 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 Two Brain Sides out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Two Brain Sides's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 241k–358k

best case 2.1M (Super Hexagon)

Games like Two Brain Sides

The middle of these games

≈ 241k–358k copies

≈ $405k–$1.0M 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Rhythm (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: Super Hexagon at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 681 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rhythm (3 of 8) and Abstract (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Experimental + Building, priced around $20.
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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