How much revenue did Maskmaker make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maskmaker sell?

Q: How many copies did Maskmaker sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 322 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before Steam's cut; from 322 reviews (Very 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 Maskmaker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maskmaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–110k

best case 2.3M (HITMAN World of Assassination)

Games like Maskmaker

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–110k copies

≈ $198k–$966k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: HITMAN World of Assassination at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 318 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Automobile Sim + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Robinson: The Journey 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $104k–$280k after Steam's cut $189k–$430k before Steam's cut	$19.99	550 reviews Mixed	VRDinosaurs
Hyperbolica 2022	Est. copies ≈ 33k–53k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $117k–$315k after Steam's cut $213k–$485k before Steam's cut	$12.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SurrealExploration
Dream 2015	Est. copies ≈ 49k–79k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $120k–$323k after Steam's cut $218k–$497k before Steam's cut	$8.99	996 reviews Mixed	IndieAdventure
Obduction 2016	Est. copies ≈ 166k–270k 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	AdventurePuzzle
REQUISITION VR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $66k–$177k after Steam's cut $119k–$272k before Steam's cut	$19.99	482 reviews Mixed	VRAction
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 2021	Est. copies ≈ 963k–1.6M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut $12.0M–$27.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	39k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationAutomobile Sim
I Expect You To Die 2017	Est. copies ≈ 96k–156k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	VRPuzzle
HITMAN World of Assassination 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 60x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $14.2M–$38.3M after Steam's cut $25.9M–$58.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	70k reviews Very Positive	StealthAssassin