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How many copies did Moshcave sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$61–$164 after Steam's cut $110–$252 before the cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 9 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 Moshcave out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Moshcave's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 498k–1.3M
best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)
Games like Moshcave

The middle of these games

≈ 498k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.2M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.2M 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 23k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 129k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Bullet Hell + Singleplayer + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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