How much revenue did Keyboard Souls make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Keyboard Souls sell?

Q: How many copies did Keyboard Souls sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before the cut; from 13 reviews (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 Keyboard Souls out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Keyboard Souls's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.0M–31.7M

best case 64.7M (War Thunder)

Games like Keyboard Souls

The middle of these games

≈ 9.0M–31.7M copies

≈ $50.6M–$182.6M after Steam's cut

from ~291k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Automobile Sim (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (4 of 8) and Driving (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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