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How many copies did Smoothcade sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$762–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 14 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 Smoothcade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smoothcade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4k
best case 35k (Ball laB)
Games like Smoothcade

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–4k copies

≈ $5k–$10k after Steam's cut

from ~89 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: Ball laB at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $7k–$20k 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 38 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 69.
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 Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Precision Platformer, priced around $1. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Casual + Perma Death; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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