How much revenue did Madshot make?

$39k–$104k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Madshot sell?

Q: How many copies did Madshot sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 283 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $39k–$104k after Steam's cut $70k–$160k before the cut; from 283 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 Madshot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Madshot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 314k–1.7M

best case 1.3M (Sonic Mania)

Games like Madshot

The middle of these games

≈ 314k–1.7M copies

≈ $2.4M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Sonic Mania at ≈ 991k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fast-Paced (8 of 8) and Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Classic, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2017, 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 43 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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