How much revenue did Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game make?

$836–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $836–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 41 reviews (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 Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 700–14k

best case 306k (One Way Heroics)

Games like Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game

A typical game among these

≈ 700–14k copies

≈ $1k–$27k after Steam's cut

from ~74 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: One Way Heroics at ≈ 233k–378k copies, ≈ $223k–$601k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 44.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery Dungeon + Side Scroller, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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