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How many copies did BURNT ASHES sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$51–$138 after Steam's cut $93–$212 before the cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left BURNT ASHES out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BURNT ASHES's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 180k–434k
best case 509k (Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)
Games like BURNT ASHES

The middle of these games

≈ 180k–434k copies

≈ $1.1M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (4 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: Bomb Rush Cyberfunk at ≈ 388k–630k copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 6k reviews in their first month.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Walking Simulator (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Parkour, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 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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