How much revenue did Bard Harder! make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bard Harder! sell?

Q: How many copies did Bard Harder! sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 138 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut; from 138 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 Bard Harder! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bard Harder!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 202k–388k

best case 714k (The NOexistenceN of you AND me)

Games like Bard Harder!

The middle of these games

≈ 202k–388k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: The NOexistenceN of you AND me at ≈ 544k–885k copies, ≈ $298k–$801k 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 248 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $2. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Interactive Fiction + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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