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How many copies did Skeletal Dance Party sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut
from 70 reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 321k–956k
best case 2.9M (Noita)
Games like Skeletal Dance Party

The middle of these games

≈ 321k–956k copies

≈ $3.0M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

Best case: Noita at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 17k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Villain Protagonist (6 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Physics + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, and none of them 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 61 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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