How much revenue did On Key Up: A Game for Keyboards make?

$272–$732 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did On Key Up: A Game for Keyboards sell?

Q: How many copies did On Key Up: A Game for Keyboards sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut; from 10 reviews (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 On Key Up: A Game for Keyboards out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including On Key Up: A Game for Keyboards's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130k–487k

best case 1.4M (Surgeon Simulator)

Games like On Key Up: A Game for Keyboards

The middle of these games

≈ 130k–487k copies

≈ $259k–$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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Surgeon Simulator at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Typing (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Physics, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2026, and 1 of your 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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