How much revenue did DOLPHIN HUSTLE make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOLPHIN HUSTLE sell?

Q: How many copies did DOLPHIN HUSTLE sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 28 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 DOLPHIN HUSTLE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOLPHIN HUSTLE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 94k–326k

best case 1.5M (ROUNDS)

Games like DOLPHIN HUSTLE

A typical game among these

≈ 94k–326k copies

≈ $725k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: ROUNDS at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.9M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Fighter (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + 2D Fighter, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 70 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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