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How many copies did Soundsaber sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before Steam's cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 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 Soundsaber and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Soundsaber's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–521k
best case 1.7M (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
Games like Soundsaber

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–521k copies

≈ $388k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crypt of the NecroDancer at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rhythm (8 of 8) and Music-Based Procedural Generation (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rhythm + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2008 to 2022, 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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