How much revenue did The Happy Dismal Town make?

$272–$735 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Happy Dismal Town sell?

Q: How many copies did The Happy Dismal Town sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $272–$735 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 847–1k

best case 6k (Sentimental Death Loop)

Games like The Happy Dismal Town

A typical game among these

≈ 847–1k copies

≈ $3k–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~32 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sentimental Death Loop at ≈ 5k–8k copies, ≈ $26k–$69k 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 11 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 88.

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 (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + 2D Platformer, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Animation & Modeling + Choose Your Own Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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