How much revenue did Book Bound make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Book Bound sell?

Q: How many copies did Book Bound sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 269 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut; from 269 reviews (Mostly 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 Book Bound out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Book Bound's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–24k

best case 59k (Winkeltje: The Little Shop)

Games like Book Bound

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–24k copies

≈ $10k–$145k after Steam's cut

from ~309 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Winkeltje: The Little Shop at ≈ 45k–74k copies, ≈ $187k–$502k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 141 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (8 of 8) and Shop Keeper (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shop Keeper + Cozy, priced around $15.
The era: 7 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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Cozy Keep: Farm, Craft, Manage 2024	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $34k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$139k before the cut	$14.99	328 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessShop Keeper
Winkeltje: The Little Shop 2022	Est. copies ≈ 45k–74k 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $187k–$502k after Steam's cut $340k–$773k before the cut	$14.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Shop KeeperCozy
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