How much revenue did Quantum Break make?

$14.1M–$38.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Quantum Break sell?

Q: How many copies did Quantum Break sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $14.1M–$38.0M after Steam's cut $25.7M–$58.5M before the cut; from 31k 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 Quantum Break out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Quantum Break's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 455k–1.5M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Quantum Break

The middle of these games

≈ 455k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.7M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 Platformer (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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (4 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2021, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Life is Strange - Episode 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–13.9M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	176k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichChoices Matter
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time 2008	Est. copies ≈ 333k–542k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™ 2008	Est. copies ≈ 260k–423k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $715k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
Katana ZERO 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 8.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut	$14.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsAction
Braid 2009	Est. copies ≈ 629k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before the cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerPuzzle
The Silent Age 2015	Est. copies ≈ 351k–570k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $964k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.0M before the cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Point & ClickSide Scroller
Singularity™ 2010	Est. copies ≈ 374k–608k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before the cut	$29.99	6k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
DEATHLOOP 2021	Est. copies ≈ 755k–1.2M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.5M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.5M before the cut	$59.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSAction