How many copies did Joyspring sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 155 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Joyspring make?

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

How big is Joyspring?

Estimated owners: ≈ 4k–6k; from 155 reviews (Mostly 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 Joyspring out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Joyspring's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–2.4M

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Joyspring

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–2.4M copies

≈ $2k–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

4 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 68 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 749.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (6 of 7) and Precision Platformer (6 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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Draw 2023	Est. copies ≈ 21k–33k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	830 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RPGAction RPG
DDNet 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	46k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut $44.5M–$101.2M before the cut	$19.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
Super Meat Boy 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.2M–$27.4M after Steam's cut $18.5M–$42.1M before the cut	$14.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer Platformer
VVVVVV 2010	Est. copies ≈ 666k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $914k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut	$4.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsPrecision Platformer
MADHACK 2021	Est. copies ≈ 149–242 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before the cut	$1.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	Precision Platformer2D Platformer
Mr.Bottle and his dream 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $836–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before the cut	$2.99	41 reviews Positive	PhysicsDynamic Narration