How much revenue did Marshmallow Melee make?

$11k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Marshmallow Melee sell?

Q: How many copies did Marshmallow Melee sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 81 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before Steam's cut; from 81 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 Marshmallow Melee and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Marshmallow Melee's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–163k

best case 519k (EVERSPACE™)

Games like Marshmallow Melee

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–163k copies

≈ $310k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: EVERSPACE™ at ≈ 395k–642k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 393 reviews in their first month; the range was 178 to 893.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and VR (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action Roguelike, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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Monstrum 2015	Est. copies ≈ 184k–300k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $912k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$17.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
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