How much revenue did The Misadventure Of Melon make?

$609–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Misadventure Of Melon sell?

Q: How many copies did The Misadventure Of Melon sell?

317 to 515 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 317–515; $609–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 11 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 The Misadventure Of Melon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Misadventure Of Melon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.9M

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like The Misadventure Of Melon

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.9M copies

≈ $6.6M–$16.3M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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 Platformer (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. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 8) and Beat 'em up (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Music + Level Editor; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 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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