How much revenue did Braid make?

$2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Braid sell?

Q: How many copies did Braid sell?

629k to 1.0M copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 629k–1.0M; $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before the cut; from 10k reviews (Very 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 Braid out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Braid's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 589k–2.4M

best case 4.1M (INSIDE)

Games like Braid

The middle of these games

≈ 589k–2.4M copies

≈ $3.2M–$26.8M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: INSIDE at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut.

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 749 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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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