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How many copies did Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 56k–92k
$186k–$500k after Steam's cut $338k–$769k before Steam's cut
from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–559k
best case 627k (A Little to the Left)
Games like Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

A typical game among these

≈ 266k–559k copies

≈ $392k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 478k–777k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 579 reviews in their first month; the range was 391 to 807.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Point & Click (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2022, 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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