How much revenue did Colored Effects make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Colored Effects sell?

Q: How many copies did Colored Effects sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 63 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 63 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 Colored Effects and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Colored Effects's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 75k–97k

best case 95k (Lightmatter)

Games like Colored Effects

A typical game among these

≈ 75k–97k copies

≈ $91k–$418k 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.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lightmatter at ≈ 72k–117k copies, ≈ $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 39 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 525.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Logic (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Logic + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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
A Game of Changes 2016	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before Steam's cut	$4.99	244 reviews Mixed	Puzzle3D Platformer
Halver 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut	$9.99	96 reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerLogic
Lightmatter 2020	Est. copies ≈ 72k–117k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $721k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	LogicIndie
Hexologic 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42k–67k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $104k–$236k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LogicPuzzle
I hate this game 2019	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $42k–$112k after Steam's cut $76k–$172k before Steam's cut	$1.99	3k reviews Very Positive	IndiePuzzle
Puzzle - LINES AND KNOTS 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–11k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $32k–$74k before Steam's cut	$9.99	261 reviews Very Positive	CasualPuzzle
The God Unit 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before Steam's cut	$9.99	94 reviews Very Positive	LogicPuzzle
Sqroma 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut	$5.99	80 reviews Very Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer