How many copies did The Expendabros sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Expendabros make?

The Expendabros is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Expendabros?

Estimated owners: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; from 18k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Expendabros out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Expendabros's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–7.9M

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like The Expendabros

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–7.9M copies

≈ $17.3M–$67.8M after Steam's cut

from ~54k 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 Sandbox (3 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (3 of 8) and Action Roguelike (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
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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