How much revenue did Moonscars make?

$206k–$554k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Moonscars sell?

Q: How many copies did Moonscars sell?

37k to 61k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–61k; $206k–$554k after Steam's cut $375k–$852k before the cut; from 2k 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 Moonscars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Moonscars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–5.7M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Moonscars

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–5.7M copies

≈ $28.4M–$73.2M after Steam's cut

from ~86k 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.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.3M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.5M–$213.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (5 of 8) and Metroidvania (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Difficult + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 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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