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How many copies did SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 123k–200k
$1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before the cut
from 5k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 779k–5.6M
best case 15.3M (Fall Guys)
Games like SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

The middle of these games

≈ 779k–5.6M copies

≈ $7.6M–$20.8M after Steam's cut

from ~25k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Fall Guys at ≈ 11.6M–18.9M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 144k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Party Game + Battle Royale.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 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 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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