How much revenue did SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake sell?

Q: How many copies did SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake sell?

125k to 203k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 125k–203k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Very 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 SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 786k–5.6M

best case 15.2M (Fall Guys)

Games like SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

A typical game among these

≈ 786k–5.6M copies

≈ $7.7M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Fall Guys at ≈ 11.6M–18.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Battle Royale.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2021, and none of them 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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