How much revenue did Bardbarian make?

$186k–$500k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bardbarian sell?

Q: How many copies did Bardbarian sell?

85k to 137k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–137k; $186k–$500k after Steam's cut $338k–$769k before the cut; from 2k 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 Bardbarian out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bardbarian's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–76k

best case 565k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like Bardbarian

The middle of these games

≈ 48k–76k copies

≈ $149k–$254k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 431k–700k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 787 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Vikings, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 61 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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