How much revenue did Sunblaze make?

$50k–$133k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunblaze sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunblaze sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 485 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $50k–$133k after Steam's cut $90k–$205k before Steam's cut; from 485 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 Sunblaze and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunblaze's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 218k–1.0M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Sunblaze

A typical game among these

≈ 218k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.0M–$28.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 30 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Precision Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 3 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 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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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $19.7M–$52.9M after Steam's cut $35.7M–$81.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	48k reviews Very Positive	ActionSuperhero
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 22x 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
LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 354k–575k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	LEGOMultiplayer
Hot Lava 2019	Est. copies ≈ 178k–289k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $977k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer3D Platformer
They Bleed Pixels 2012	Est. copies ≈ 161k–262k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $443k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $806k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerDifficult
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BLOWFLY2:OVERLIMIT 2024	Est. copies ≈ 942–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$3.99	38 reviews Positive	Precision PlatformerSide Scroller