How much revenue did Skeletal Dance Party make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skeletal Dance Party sell?

Q: How many copies did Skeletal Dance Party sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 70 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 70 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 Skeletal Dance Party and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skeletal Dance Party's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 321k–966k

best case 2.9M (Noita)

Games like Skeletal Dance Party

A typical game among these

≈ 321k–966k copies

≈ $3.0M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Noita at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Villain Protagonist (6 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Physics + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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