How much revenue did TAPSONIC BOLD make?

$189k–$509k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TAPSONIC BOLD sell?

Q: How many copies did TAPSONIC BOLD sell?

34k to 56k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–56k; $189k–$509k after Steam's cut $344k–$783k before the cut; from 1k 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 TAPSONIC BOLD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TAPSONIC BOLD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 180k–329k

best case 921k (AudioSurf)

Games like TAPSONIC BOLD

The middle of these games

≈ 180k–329k copies

≈ $459k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: AudioSurf at ≈ 701k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2018, 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 38 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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