How much revenue did Battle Brothers make?

$8.1M–$21.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battle Brothers sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle Brothers sell?

986k to 1.6M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 986k–1.6M; $8.1M–$21.9M after Steam's cut $14.8M–$33.6M before the cut; from 29k reviews (Very 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 Battle Brothers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle Brothers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38.9M–90.6M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Battle Brothers

The middle of these games

≈ 38.9M–90.6M copies

≈ $549.3M–$890.6M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M 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 Open World (4 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 268k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Baldur's Gate 3 2023	Est. copies ≈ 21.2M–34.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $349.3M–$939.1M after Steam's cut $635.1M–$1444.8M before the cut	$59.99	854k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RPGCharacter Customization
ELDEN RING 2022	Est. copies ≈ 28.6M–46.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $471.3M–$1267.1M after Steam's cut $856.9M–$1949.4M before the cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeOpen World
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition 2015	Est. copies ≈ 43.2M–70.2M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $593.9M–$1596.9M after Steam's cut $1079.9M–$2456.7M before the cut	$49.99	885k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 97.9M–159.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut $489.0M–$1112.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.5M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.0M–69.9M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut $322.5M–$733.6M before the cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.0M–48.7M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut $899.1M–$2045.4M before the cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MythologyAction RPG