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How many copies did Blocks and Bones sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$239–$640 after Steam's cut $434–$985 before the cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Blocks and Bones out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blocks and Bones's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 368k–601k
best case 4.8M (BattleBit Remastered)
Games like Blocks and Bones

The middle of these games

≈ 368k–601k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: BattleBit Remastered at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 625 to 54k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (7 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Military + Massively Multiplayer + War; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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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