How much revenue did Monsti make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monsti sell?

Q: How many copies did Monsti sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 663 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 663 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–9.4M

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Monsti

The middle of these games

≈ 4.6M–9.4M copies

≈ $12.0M–$52.4M after Steam's cut

from ~139k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Music (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 115 to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (3 of 8) and Rhythm (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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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Muse Dash 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.0M before the cut	$2.99	122k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.7M–58.0M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut $89.1M–$202.7M before the cut	$4.99	638k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
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