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How many copies did I Am Bread sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 291k–472k
$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut
from 6k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left I Am Bread out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Am Bread's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–12.2M
best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)
Games like I Am Bread

The middle of these games

≈ 4.5M–12.2M copies

≈ $45.0M–$132.6M after Steam's cut

from ~153k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Sandbox (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Casual + First-Person + Moddable; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 to 2026, 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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