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How big is The Brittle Epoch?

Estimated owners
≈ 521–846
from 21 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–26k
best case 243k (Breakout 13)
Games like The Brittle Epoch

The middle of these games

≈ 20k–26k copies

≈ $54k–$104k after Steam's cut

from ~762 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Breakout 13 at ≈ 185k–301k copies, ≈ $509k–$1.4M 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 420 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 61 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FMV + Interactive Fiction, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Lore-Rich + Choose Your Own Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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