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How many copies did Perish Song sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$382–$1k after Steam's cut $695–$2k before the cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Perish Song out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Perish Song's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 700–1k
best case 91k (Patch Quest)
Games like Perish Song

The middle of these games

≈ 700–1k copies

≈ $708–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~34 reviews

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

2 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: Patch Quest at ≈ 69k–112k copies, ≈ $285k–$765k 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 155 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Roguevania (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Rogue-lite, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Rogue-lite + Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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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82x vs typical
SteamSpy 100k–200k
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$14.99
3k reviews
Very Positive
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