How many copies did Joyspring sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 155 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Joyspring make?

Joyspring is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Joyspring?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 4k–6k; from 155 reviews (Mostly 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 Joyspring and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Joyspring's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–2.4M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Joyspring

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–2.4M copies

≈ $2k–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

4 of the 7 similar games are hits.

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 68 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 749.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (6 of 7) and Precision Platformer (6 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Draw 2023	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	849 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RPGAction RPG
DDNet 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	47k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 14x 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
Super Meat Boy 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.2M–$27.5M after Steam's cut $18.6M–$42.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer Platformer
VVVVVV 2010	Est. copies ≈ 667k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsPrecision Platformer
MADHACK 2021	Est. copies ≈ 149–242 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut	$1.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	Precision Platformer2D Platformer
Mr.Bottle and his dream 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $857–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$2.99	42 reviews Positive	PhysicsDynamic Narration