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How many copies did BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before the cut
from 93 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–1.8M
best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)
Games like BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–1.8M copies

≈ $9.8M–$11.5M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 86k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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