How much revenue did Into the Breach make?

$2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Into the Breach sell?

Q: How many copies did Into the Breach sell?

676k to 1.1M copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 676k–1.1M; $2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.5M before the cut; from 22k 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 Into the Breach out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Into the Breach's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.7M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Into the Breach

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–1.7M copies

≈ $4.6M–$14.3M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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 Turn-Based (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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M 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 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 975 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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