How much revenue did The Library of Babel make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Library of Babel sell?

Q: How many copies did The Library of Babel sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$47k before the cut; from 87 reviews (Mostly 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 The Library of Babel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Library of Babel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–40k

best case 472k (Contrast)

Games like The Library of Babel

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–40k copies

≈ $31k–$271k after Steam's cut

from ~574 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Contrast at ≈ 360k–585k copies, ≈ $989k–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 148 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 131 to 250.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Noir (5 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Noir, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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