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How many copies did Mealmates sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 570–927
$2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut
from 23 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 Mealmates and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mealmates's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342–4k
best case 2.3M (Pummel Party)
Games like Mealmates

A typical game among these

≈ 342–4k copies

≈ $1k–$32k after Steam's cut

from ~14 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: Pummel Party at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 7.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Minigames (6 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Board Game, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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 38 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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