How much revenue did Budget Cuts make?

$235k–$632k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Budget Cuts sell?

Q: How many copies did Budget Cuts sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $235k–$632k after Steam's cut $427k–$972k before the cut; from 2k 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 Budget Cuts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Budget Cuts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 136k–421k

best case 2.2M (HITMAN World of Assassination)

Games like Budget Cuts

The middle of these games

≈ 136k–421k copies

≈ $1.7M–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: HITMAN World of Assassination at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $32.7M–$87.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (7 of 8) and Robots (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Assassin, priced around $70.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency 2019	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $63k–$170k after Steam's cut $115k–$262k before the cut	$14.99	534 reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
Sir, You Are Being Hunted 2014	Est. copies ≈ 219k–355k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before the cut	$19.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Survival Stealth
HITMAN World of Assassination 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $32.7M–$87.9M after Steam's cut $59.4M–$135.2M before the cut	$69.99	68k reviews Very Positive	StealthAssassin
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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED 2019	Est. copies ≈ 378k–614k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before the cut	$29.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorVR
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Budget Cuts Ultimate 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before the cut	$19.99	114 reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure