How much revenue did Cursorblade make?

$35k–$95k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cursorblade sell?

Q: How many copies did Cursorblade sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$146k before the cut; from 1k 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 Cursorblade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cursorblade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 975k–2.1M

best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Cursorblade

The middle of these games

≈ 975k–2.1M copies

≈ $3.6M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24k 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 (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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