How much revenue did DanSparkling make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DanSparkling sell?

Q: How many copies did DanSparkling sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 26 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 DanSparkling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DanSparkling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 188k–703k

best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)

Games like DanSparkling

A typical game among these

≈ 188k–703k copies

≈ $1.0M–$12.8M 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: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (8 of 8) and Music (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20.
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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