How much revenue did BONELAB make?

$5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BONELAB sell?

Q: How many copies did BONELAB sell?

502k to 816k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 502k–816k; $5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's cut $10.0M–$22.9M before the cut; from 20k 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 BONELAB out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BONELAB's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.6M

best case 4.0M (CarX Drift Racing Online)

Games like BONELAB

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–3.6M copies

≈ $15.6M–$25.1M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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: CarX Drift Racing Online at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $14.3M–$38.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (6 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Physics, priced around $17.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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