How much revenue did ERSATZ make?

$377–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ERSATZ sell?

Q: How many copies did ERSATZ sell?

688 to 1k copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 688–1k; $377–$1k after Steam's cut $685–$2k before the cut; from 20 reviews (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 ERSATZ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ERSATZ's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 174k–331k

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like ERSATZ

The middle of these games

≈ 174k–331k copies

≈ $474k–$1.3M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (8 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Level Editor + Precision Platformer + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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 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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