How much revenue did Basement make?

$353k–$950k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Basement sell?

Q: How many copies did Basement sell?

64k to 104k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 64k–104k; $353k–$950k after Steam's cut $642k–$1.5M before the cut; from 2k 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 Basement out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Basement's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 251k–648k

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like Basement

The middle of these games

≈ 251k–648k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 781 to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Multiplayer + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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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