How much revenue did Boom Bits make?

$83–$223 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Boom Bits sell?

Q: How many copies did Boom Bits sell?

30 to 49 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30–49; $83–$223 after Steam's cut $150–$343 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Boom Bits out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Boom Bits's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–132k

best case 522k (SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising)

Games like Boom Bits

The middle of these games

≈ 27k–132k copies

≈ $194k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising at ≈ 398k–647k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 326 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 91 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (5 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Top-Down Shooter + Rogue-lite, priced around $20.
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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