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How many copies did Be Not Afraid, But Run sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 298–484
$409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut
from 12 reviews (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 Be Not Afraid, But Run out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Be Not Afraid, But Run's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–39k
best case 155k (Pistol Whip)
Games like Be Not Afraid, But Run

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–39k copies

≈ $18k–$172k after Steam's cut

from ~536 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: Pistol Whip at ≈ 118k–192k copies, ≈ $977k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 220 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 52 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arcade (6 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $30.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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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7.7x vs typical
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$29.99
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