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How many copies did A Musical Story sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$31k–$82k after Steam's cut $56k–$126k before the cut
from 299 reviews (Very Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 414k–1.0M
best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)
Games like A Musical Story

The middle of these games

≈ 414k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.3M–$8.3M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 24k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Rhythm (7 of 8) and Music (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Precision Platformer + Difficult + Level Editor; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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