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How many copies did Color Souls sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 719–1k
$987–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 29 reviews (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 Color Souls out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Color Souls's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342–472
best case 9k (Angel's Gear)
Games like Color Souls

The middle of these games

≈ 342–472 copies

≈ $659–$943 after Steam's cut

from ~12 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Angel's Gear at ≈ 7k–11k copies, ≈ $18k–$49k 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 20 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 84.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Side Scroller + 2D Platformer, priced around $9.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 43 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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