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How many copies did The Spell Brigade sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 411k–668k
$1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before the cut
from 17k 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 The Spell Brigade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Spell Brigade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 406k–833k
best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)
Games like The Spell Brigade

The middle of these games

≈ 406k–833k copies

≈ $4.1M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 103k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Co-op (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter + Looter Shooter + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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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