How much revenue did A Musical Story make?

$31k–$83k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Musical Story sell?

Q: How many copies did A Musical Story sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 302 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $31k–$83k after Steam's cut $56k–$128k before Steam's cut; from 302 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 A Musical Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Musical Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 415k–1.0M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like A Musical Story

A typical game among these

≈ 415k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.3M–$8.3M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

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.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (7 of 8) and Music (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Precision Platformer + Difficult + Level Editor; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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