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 193 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–$82k before Steam's cut; from 193 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 Spectacular Sparky and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spectacular Sparky's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–4.6M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Spectacular Sparky

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–4.6M copies

≈ $26.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut

from ~72k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut $69.8M–$158.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	184k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike
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Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 9.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic