How much revenue did The Happy Dismal Town make?

$272–$735 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Happy Dismal Town sell?

Q: How many copies did The Happy Dismal Town sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $272–$735 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 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.

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 847–1k

best case 6k (Sentimental Death Loop)

Games like The Happy Dismal Town

The middle of these games

≈ 847–1k copies

≈ $3k–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~32 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.

Best case: Sentimental Death Loop at ≈ 5k–8k copies, ≈ $26k–$69k 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 11 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 88.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + 2D Platformer, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Animation & Modeling + Choose Your Own Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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