How much revenue did Violet Muscle Pain make?

$20–$55 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Violet Muscle Pain sell?

Q: How many copies did Violet Muscle Pain sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$85 before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–121k

best case 642k (Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad)

Games like Violet Muscle Pain

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–121k copies

≈ $21k–$195k after Steam's cut

from ~487 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad at ≈ 489k–795k copies, ≈ $133k–$358k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 83 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 473.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Story Rich, priced around $1.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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 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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