How much revenue did Candy Smash VR make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Candy Smash VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Candy Smash VR sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 124 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before the cut; from 124 reviews (Mostly 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 Candy Smash VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Candy Smash VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–184k

best case 276k (Hellish Quart)

Games like Candy Smash VR

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–184k copies

≈ $516k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hellish Quart at ≈ 211k–342k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 386 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (7 of 8) and Fighting (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Swordplay, priced around $18.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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