How much revenue did Explosionade DX make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Explosionade DX sell?

Q: How many copies did Explosionade DX sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 86 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut; from 86 reviews (Mostly 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 Explosionade DX and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Explosionade DX's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–126k

best case 105k (Soda Crisis)

Games like Explosionade DX

A typical game among these

≈ 63k–126k copies

≈ $222k–$566k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Soda Crisis at ≈ 80k–130k copies, ≈ $242k–$650k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Runner, priced around $11.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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