How much revenue did SuperMash make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SuperMash sell?

Q: How many copies did SuperMash sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 45 reviews (Mixed)

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 SuperMash and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SuperMash's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 84k–466k

best case 1.1M (Gunpoint)

Games like SuperMash

A typical game among these

≈ 84k–466k copies

≈ $507k–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Gunpoint at ≈ 843k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Game Development (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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).

Similar games

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Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–38k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $122k–$328k after Steam's cut $222k–$505k before Steam's cut	$18.99	942 reviews Very Positive	HorrorProcedural Generation
Gunpoint 2013	Est. copies ≈ 843k–1.4M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthIndie
RPG Maker XP 2013	Est. copies ≈ 125k–203k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $860k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Game DevelopmentRPG
Stealth Bastard Deluxe 2012	Est. copies ≈ 78k–126k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $278k–$747k after Steam's cut $505k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$12.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Stealth Platformer
Heat Signature 2017	Est. copies ≈ 255k–415k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	SpaceStealth
RPG Maker VX Ace 2012	Est. copies ≈ 328k–533k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.1M before Steam's cut	$69.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Game DevelopmentRPG
Visual Novel Maker 2017	Est. copies ≈ 16k–26k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $266k–$716k after Steam's cut $484k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	469 reviews Mixed	Visual NovelAnime
RPG Maker MV 2015	Est. copies ≈ 437k–711k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $9.6M–$25.9M after Steam's cut $17.5M–$39.8M before Steam's cut	$79.99	9k reviews Very Positive	RPGRPGMaker