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How many copies did BLOOD=BULLETS sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$122–$329 after Steam's cut $222–$506 before the cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 9 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 BLOOD=BULLETS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BLOOD=BULLETS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147–3k
best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)
Games like BLOOD=BULLETS

The middle of these games

≈ 147–3k copies

≈ $415–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~11 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 73 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Dungeon Crawler + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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