How much revenue did Violet Muscle Pain make?

$20–$55 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Violet Muscle Pain sell?

Q: How many copies did Violet Muscle Pain 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; $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$85 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 Violet Muscle Pain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Violet Muscle Pain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–121k

best case 643k (Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad)

Games like Violet Muscle Pain

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–121k copies

≈ $21k–$195k after Steam's cut

from ~504 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad at ≈ 490k–796k copies, ≈ $133k–$358k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 81 reviews in their first month; the range was 42 to 472.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Story Rich, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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 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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