How many copies did Beat Around The Bush sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 709 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Beat Around The Bush make?

Beat Around The Bush is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Beat Around The Bush?

Estimated owners: ≈ 18k–29k; from 709 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 Beat Around The Bush out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beat Around The Bush's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–47k

best case 457k (Nodebuster)

Games like Beat Around The Bush

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–47k copies

≈ $11k–$57k 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nodebuster at ≈ 348k–566k copies, ≈ $286k–$770k 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 364 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (6 of 8) and Idler (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Arcade, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Clicker + 2D + Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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