How much revenue did Smoothcade make?

$762–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Smoothcade sell?

Q: How many copies did Smoothcade sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $762–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 14 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 Smoothcade and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smoothcade's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4k

best case 35k (Ball laB)

Games like Smoothcade

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–4k copies

≈ $5k–$10k after Steam's cut

from ~90 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: Ball laB at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $7k–$19k 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 38 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 69.

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 (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Precision Platformer, priced around $1. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Casual + Perma Death; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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