The Music Machine

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The Music Machine

Short description

A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Developer
David Szymanski
Publisher
David Szymanski
Release
Wed, May 06, 2015
Price
$4.99
$0.99
80%
best price ever
Reviews
497
Positive
88%
Followers
1,789
Owners (estimated)
20K – 50K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Adventure, Indie
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Captions available
Tags
Adventure Indie Horror First-Person Walking Simulator Psychological Horror Exploration Atmospheric Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Dark Dark Humor Pixel Graphics Puzzle Stylized Music Short Mystery Female Protagonist Point & Click
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$98ksomewhere between $88k and $174k · roughly 20K–40K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $4.38, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $4.99 launch price. That is 12% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

11 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$97k → ~$98k
Reviews 493 → 497
Followers 1,779 → 1,789
Price $4.99 → $0.99
Positive reviews 88.2% → 87.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 309 further data points reach back to May 1, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Oct 27, 2025. That is the current price.

How crowded is this niche?

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