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How many copies did Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.6M–4.2M
$10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.5M before the cut
from 41k 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 Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 647k–2.1M
best case 2.7M (A Plague Tale: Innocence)
Games like Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

The middle of these games

≈ 647k–2.1M copies

≈ $2.1M–$15.0M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: A Plague Tale: Innocence at ≈ 2.1M–3.3M copies, ≈ $22.6M–$60.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 516 to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Stealth, priced around $40.
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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