How much revenue did Joon Shining make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Joon Shining sell?

Q: How many copies did Joon Shining sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 Joon Shining and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Joon Shining's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 275k–1.2M

best case 1.8M (Trine 2: Complete Story)

Games like Joon Shining

A typical game among these

≈ 275k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.1M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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.

Best case: Trine 2: Complete Story at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 3k reviews in their first month.

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 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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).

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