How much revenue did Candy Arkanoid make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Candy Arkanoid sell?

Q: How many copies did Candy Arkanoid sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews 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 Candy Arkanoid and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Candy Arkanoid's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–72k

best case 80k (pureya)

Games like Candy Arkanoid

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–72k copies

≈ $138k–$323k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: pureya at ≈ 61k–99k copies, ≈ $100k–$270k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 497 reviews in their first month; the range was 387 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Minigames + Arcade, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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