How much revenue did 1001 Spikes make?

$178k–$479k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1001 Spikes sell?

Q: How many copies did 1001 Spikes sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 772 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $178k–$479k after Steam's cut $324k–$737k before Steam's cut; from 772 reviews (Very 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 1001 Spikes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1001 Spikes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 519k–1.4M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like 1001 Spikes

A typical game among these

≈ 519k–1.4M copies

≈ $1.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Difficult + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2021, 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 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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