How much revenue did The Sexy Brutale make?

$788k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Sexy Brutale sell?

Q: How many copies did The Sexy Brutale sell?

143k to 233k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 143k–233k; $788k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Sexy Brutale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sexy Brutale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–49k

best case 263k (Twelve Minutes)

Games like The Sexy Brutale

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–49k copies

≈ $123k–$694k after Steam's cut

from ~572 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: Twelve Minutes at ≈ 200k–326k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 120 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 67 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Puzzle, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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