How much revenue did The Bridge make?

$756k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Bridge sell?

Q: How many copies did The Bridge sell?

275k to 447k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 275k–447k; $756k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Bridge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Bridge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–295k

best case 3.8M (GRIS)

Games like The Bridge

The middle of these games

≈ 79k–295k copies

≈ $306k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: GRIS at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 448 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 183 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hand-drawn (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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