How much revenue did DanSparkling make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DanSparkling sell?

Q: How many copies did DanSparkling sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 26 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187k–699k

best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)

Games like DanSparkling

The middle of these games

≈ 187k–699k copies

≈ $1.0M–$12.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rhythm (8 of 8) and Music (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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