How much revenue did BattleBlock Theater® make?

$16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BattleBlock Theater® sell?

Q: How many copies did BattleBlock Theater® sell?

4.1M to 6.6M copies, based on its 73k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.1M–6.6M; $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before the cut; from 73k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 BattleBlock Theater® out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BattleBlock Theater®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.5M

best case 15.3M (Fall Guys)

Games like BattleBlock Theater®

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.5M copies

≈ $12.6M–$22.6M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: Fall Guys at ≈ 11.6M–18.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and 3D Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Funny + Party Game + Battle Royale; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2020, 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 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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