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How big is Pixel Puzzles Illustrations & Anime Jigsaw Puzzles?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 7k–12k
from 302 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Pixel Puzzles Illustrations & Anime Jigsaw Puzzles and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Puzzles Illustrations & Anime Jigsaw Puzzles's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 590k–1.3M
best case 4.6M (MiSide)
Games like Pixel Puzzles Illustrations & Anime Jigsaw Puzzles

A typical game among these

≈ 590k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.3M–$15.0M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: MiSide at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $14.6M–$39.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Cute + Horror + Sexual Content; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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