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How many copies did Gunbrella sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 26k–42k
$108k–$289k after Steam's cut $196k–$445k before the cut
from 1k 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 Gunbrella out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gunbrella's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 626k–1.2M
best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)
Games like Gunbrella

The middle of these games

≈ 626k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.3M–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Souls-like + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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