How much revenue did Back to the Dawn make?

$1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Back to the Dawn sell?

Q: How many copies did Back to the Dawn sell?

257k to 418k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 257k–418k; $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before the cut; from 10k 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 Back to the Dawn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Back to the Dawn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–4.4M

best case 21.7M (Undertale)

Games like Back to the Dawn

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–4.4M copies

≈ $13.9M–$24.9M after Steam's cut

from ~65k 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: Undertale at ≈ 16.5M–26.8M copies, ≈ $45.3M–$121.9M 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 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Funny + Choices Matter + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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Wandering Sword 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.6M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut	$24.99	45k reviews Very Positive	RPGMartial Arts
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Undertale 2015	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.8M 5.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut $82.4M–$187.6M before the cut	$9.99	338k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackStory Rich