How much revenue did Monkey Splash!! make?

$695–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monkey Splash!! sell?

Q: How many copies did Monkey Splash!! sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $695–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 17 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 Monkey Splash!! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monkey Splash!!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 178k–288k

best case 493k (Rogue Legacy 2)

Games like Monkey Splash!!

A typical game among these

≈ 178k–288k copies

≈ $654k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Rogue Legacy 2 at ≈ 376k–611k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

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 421 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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