How much revenue did Melodier make?

$142–$381 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Melodier sell?

Q: How many copies did Melodier sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $142–$381 after Steam's cut $258–$586 before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Melodier and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Melodier's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–1.9M

best case 4.7M (Soundpad)

Games like Melodier

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–1.9M copies

≈ $2k–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

2 of the 4 similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (4 of 4) and Audio Production (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Audio Production, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2022, 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
AudioSurf 2008	Est. copies ≈ 702k–1.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
Nachkriegsratten Punk-Rock Puzzle 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$4.99	42 reviews Positive	CasualAudio Production
Classical Music Minesweeper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before Steam's cut	$2.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	PuzzleMusic