How much revenue did Disaster Band make?

$34k–$92k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Disaster Band sell?

Q: How many copies did Disaster Band sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 714 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before the cut; from 714 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 Disaster Band out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Disaster Band's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 99k–261k

best case 364k (Trombone Champ)

Games like Disaster Band

The middle of these games

≈ 99k–261k copies

≈ $213k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Trombone Champ at ≈ 278k–451k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (8 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Comedy, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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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