How much revenue did The Spike make?

The Spike is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Spike sell?

Q: How many copies did The Spike sell?

59k to 96k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59k–96k; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 127k–149k

best case 482k (Soccer Online: Ball 3D)

Games like The Spike

The middle of these games

≈ 127k–149k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Soccer Online: Ball 3D at ≈ 367k–596k copies, ≈ $100k–$269k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 974 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 117 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (7 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Football (Soccer), priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Football (Soccer) + Multiplayer + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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