How much revenue did Rhythium make?

$517–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rhythium sell?

Q: How many copies did Rhythium sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $517–$1k after Steam's cut $940–$2k before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (Mixed)

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 Rhythium and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rhythium's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 132k–397k

best case 826k (Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY)

Games like Rhythium

A typical game among these

≈ 132k–397k copies

≈ $233k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Music (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: Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY at ≈ 629k–1.0M copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 470 reviews in their first month; the range was 277 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (4 of 8) and Rhythm (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Education, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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Waveform 2012	Est. copies ≈ 135k–220k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $134k–$306k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	IndiePuzzle
MUSYNX 2018	Est. copies ≈ 207k–336k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $227k–$610k after Steam's cut $413k–$939k before Steam's cut	$3.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RhythmMusic
Secret of the Magic Crystals 2010	Est. copies ≈ 105k–170k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $144k–$386k after Steam's cut $261k–$594k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Time ManagementManagement
3on3 FreeStyle: Rebound 2020	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	BasketballTeam-Based
Mitos.is: The Game 2015	Est. copies ≈ 588k–956k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
FUSER™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 36k–58k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	MusicCasual
Rocksmith™ 2012	Est. copies ≈ 87k–142k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	MusicSimulation
Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY 2024	Est. copies ≈ 629k–1.0M 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	25k reviews Very Positive	MusicEducation