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How many copies did Spellarium 12 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$354–$952 after Steam's cut $643–$1k before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 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.

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We left Spellarium 12 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spellarium 12's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98–130
best case 674k (Bejeweled® 3)
Games like Spellarium 12

The middle of these games

≈ 98–130 copies

≈ $490–$502 after Steam's cut

from ~4 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bejeweled® 3 at ≈ 513k–834k copies, ≈ $704k–$1.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 2 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Mahjong (7 of 8) and Match 3 (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Free to Play + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, 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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