How much revenue did Bugsnax make?

$1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bugsnax sell?

Q: How many copies did Bugsnax sell?

234k to 381k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 234k–381k; $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.7M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Bugsnax out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bugsnax's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–69k

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

Games like Bugsnax

The middle of these games

≈ 34k–69k copies

≈ $60k–$858k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 581 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 39 to 33k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Creature Collector (7 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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