How much revenue did Happy Bones make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Happy Bones sell?

Q: How many copies did Happy Bones sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 21 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 Happy Bones out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Happy Bones's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–64k

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Happy Bones

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–64k copies

≈ $39k–$181k after Steam's cut

from ~932 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M 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 211 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 43 to 442.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Crafting + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 731x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
The Chosen RPG 2016	Est. copies ≈ 51k–84k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$116k before the cut	$1.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeMature
Legend of Mysteria RPG 2015	Est. copies ≈ 45k–74k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before the cut	$1.99	932 reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeRPG
Zanki Zero: Last Beginning 2019	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $330k–$887k after Steam's cut $600k–$1.4M before the cut	$59.99	694 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGDungeon Crawler
MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 151k–245k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayRPG
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Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–38k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $121k–$326k after Steam's cut $221k–$502k before the cut	$18.99	937 reviews Very Positive	HorrorProcedural Generation
Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut	$2.99	100 reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterSimulation