How much revenue did Happy Bones make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Happy Bones sell?

Q: How many copies did Happy Bones sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 21 reviews (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 Happy Bones and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Happy Bones's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–64k

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Happy Bones

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–64k copies

≈ $39k–$182k after Steam's cut

from ~929 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 211 reviews in their first month; the range was 43 to 439.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Crafting + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
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).

Similar games

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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 735x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
The Chosen RPG 2016	Est. copies ≈ 51k–84k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$116k before Steam's cut	$1.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeMature
Legend of Mysteria RPG 2015	Est. copies ≈ 45k–74k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before Steam's cut	$1.99	929 reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeRPG
Zanki Zero: Last Beginning 2019	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $332k–$892k after Steam's cut $603k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$59.99	698 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGDungeon Crawler
MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 151k–245k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayRPG
中年失业模拟器When a man lose his job 2021	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut	$7.99	366 reviews Mostly Positive	CapitalismExploration
Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–38k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $122k–$328k after Steam's cut $222k–$505k before Steam's cut	$18.99	942 reviews Very Positive	HorrorProcedural Generation
Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$2.99	100 reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterSimulation