How much revenue did Melody's Escape make?

$549k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Melody's Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did Melody's Escape sell?

200k to 325k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 200k–325k; $549k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $998k–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Melody's Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Melody's Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–13k

best case 38k (Soundfall)

Games like Melody's Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–13k copies

≈ $4k–$75k after Steam's cut

from ~104 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Soundfall at ≈ 29k–47k copies, ≈ $237k–$638k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 39 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 563.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (8 of 8) and Music-Based Procedural Generation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Looter Shooter, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2020 to 2026, and 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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