How much revenue did Mineirinho Director's Cut make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mineirinho Director's Cut sell?

Q: How many copies did Mineirinho Director's Cut sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

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 Mineirinho Director's Cut out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mineirinho Director's Cut's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–7.3M

best case 40.5M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Mineirinho Director's Cut

The middle of these games

≈ 3.4M–7.3M copies

≈ $24.3M–$62.1M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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 Anime (4 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.9M–50.1M copies, ≈ $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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