How much revenue did Valley Dash make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Valley Dash sell?

Q: How many copies did Valley Dash sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Valley Dash and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Valley Dash's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 595k–1.4M

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like Valley Dash

A typical game among these

≈ 595k–1.4M copies

≈ $5.1M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 41k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.8M before Steam's cut	$12.99	49k reviews Very Positive	DwarfAction Roguelike
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