How much revenue did Doughball Descent make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doughball Descent sell?

Q: How many copies did Doughball Descent sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Doughball Descent and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doughball Descent's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 354k–1000k

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like Doughball Descent

A typical game among these

≈ 354k–1000k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 454 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 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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