How much revenue did Cadence make?

$81–$220 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cadence sell?

Q: How many copies did Cadence sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $81–$220 after Steam's cut $148–$338 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 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 Cadence and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cadence's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–1.8M

best case 13.5M (Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition)

Games like Cadence

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–1.8M copies

≈ $299k–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition at ≈ 10.3M–16.7M copies, ≈ $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 429 reviews in their first month; the range was 100 to 927.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (6 of 8) and Boss Rush (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Ninja, priced around $60.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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