How much revenue did BONEWORKS make?

$8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BONEWORKS sell?

Q: How many copies did BONEWORKS sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut $15.7M–$35.8M before the cut; from 36k 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 BONEWORKS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BONEWORKS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.8M

best case 64.7M (War Thunder)

Games like BONEWORKS

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.8M copies

≈ $21.5M–$26.4M after Steam's cut

from ~86k 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.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M 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 24k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and VR (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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