How much revenue did My Mud Game make?

$765–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Mud Game sell?

Q: How many copies did My Mud Game sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $765–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 My Mud Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Mud Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–105k

best case 315k (Aliya: Timelink)

Games like My Mud Game

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–105k copies

≈ $180k–$389k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Aliya: Timelink at ≈ 240k–390k copies, ≈ $197k–$530k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 577 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (8 of 8) and Text-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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