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How many copies did Cake Space Shooter sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 496–806
$135–$363 after Steam's cut $246–$559 before the cut
from 20 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 474k–670k
best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)
Games like Cake Space Shooter

The middle of these games

≈ 474k–670k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 679 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 41k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Arena Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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