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How many copies did Soulless: Ray Of Hope sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–22k
$19k–$51k after Steam's cut $34k–$78k before Steam's cut
from 330 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 Soulless: Ray Of Hope and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Soulless: Ray Of Hope's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.7M–26.8M
best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)
Games like Soulless: Ray Of Hope

A typical game among these

≈ 3.7M–26.8M copies

≈ $27.2M–$68.8M after Steam's cut

from ~149k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 105 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Precision Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 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 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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≈ 36.2M–58.9M
4.3x vs typical
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