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How many copies did Spin Rhythm XD sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 105k–171k
$578k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut
from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Spin Rhythm XD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spin Rhythm XD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 813k–2.1M
best case 4.6M (Muse Dash)
Games like Spin Rhythm XD

A typical game among these

≈ 813k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.3M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~26k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Muse Dash at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 23k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rhythm (8 of 8) and Music (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $3.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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