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How many copies did Breakyo sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$68–$183 after Steam's cut $123–$281 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.

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–568k
best case 616k (BATTALION: Legacy)
Games like Breakyo

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–568k copies

≈ $38k–$924k after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: BATTALION: Legacy at ≈ 470k–763k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 827 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arcade (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Arena Shooter.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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