How much revenue did Mind Scanners make?

$171k–$460k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mind Scanners sell?

Q: How many copies did Mind Scanners sell?

37k to 60k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–60k; $171k–$460k after Steam's cut $311k–$708k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 Mind Scanners and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mind Scanners's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–736k

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like Mind Scanners

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–736k copies

≈ $149k–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 291 reviews in their first month; the range was 39 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Dystopian (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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