How much revenue did Flash Doll make?

$61k–$164k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flash Doll sell?

Q: How many copies did Flash Doll sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 995 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before the cut; from 995 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Flash Doll out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flash Doll's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 477k–1.2M

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like Flash Doll

The middle of these games

≈ 477k–1.2M copies

≈ $7.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (3 of 8) and Music (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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OMORI 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$49.9M before the cut	$19.99	89k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Story Rich
Night in the Woods 2017	Est. copies ≈ 696k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.8M before the cut	$19.99	20k reviews Very Positive	Story RichAdventure
Virtual Cottage 2020	Est. copies ≈ 275k–447k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CozyRelaxing
POLYGON 2020	Est. copies ≈ 918k–1.5M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk 2023	Est. copies ≈ 389k–631k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.7M before the cut	$39.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action3D Platformer
Hi-Fi RUSH 2023	Est. copies ≈ 891k–1.4M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.3M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.4M before the cut	$29.99	36k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RhythmAction
Okami HD 2017	Est. copies ≈ 369k–599k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.4M before the cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureMythology
Spellbreak 2020	Est. copies ≈ 347k–564k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer