How much revenue did Smack Studio make?

$65k–$176k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Smack Studio sell?

Q: How many copies did Smack Studio sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 640 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $65k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$271k before the cut; from 640 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 Smack Studio out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smack Studio's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 278k–1.1M

best case 2.6M (Street Fighter™ 6)

Games like Smack Studio

The middle of these games

≈ 278k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.9M–$30.9M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Street Fighter™ 6 at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 14k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Fighter (7 of 8) and Fighting (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter + Fighting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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