How much revenue did Spectacular Sparky make?

$20k–$53k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spectacular Sparky sell?

Q: How many copies did Spectacular Sparky sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 192 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$81k before the cut; from 192 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 Spectacular Sparky out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spectacular Sparky's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–4.6M

best case 47.1M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Spectacular Sparky

The middle of these games

≈ 3.9M–4.6M copies

≈ $26.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut

from ~71k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.9M–58.4M copies, ≈ $49.3M–$132.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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