How much revenue did Splasher make?

$171k–$459k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Splasher sell?

Q: How many copies did Splasher sell?

41k to 67k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 41k–67k; $171k–$459k after Steam's cut $311k–$707k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 Splasher and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Splasher's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–1.7M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Splasher

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–1.7M copies

≈ $656k–$12.2M 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.

3 of the 4 similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (4 of 4) and Precision Platformer (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 44x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
The End Is Nigh 2017	Est. copies ≈ 121k–197k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $500k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $909k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer Platformer
Slime-san: Superslime Edition 2017	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$239k before Steam's cut	$17.99	340 reviews Very Positive	Platformer Precision Platformer
Electronic Super Joy 2013	Est. copies ≈ 207k–336k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $455k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $827k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$7.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerIndie