How much revenue did Bionic Dues make?

$173k–$465k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bionic Dues sell?

Q: How many copies did Bionic Dues sell?

63k to 102k copies, based on its 997 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 63k–102k; $173k–$465k after Steam's cut $315k–$716k before the cut; from 997 reviews (Mostly 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 Bionic Dues out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bionic Dues's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285k–1.1M

best case 6.4M (Balatro)

Games like Bionic Dues

The middle of these games

≈ 285k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Balatro at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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