How much revenue did Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo sell?

Q: How many copies did Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 46 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 46 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 Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 225k–986k

best case 1.1M (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya)

Games like Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo

A typical game among these

≈ 225k–986k copies

≈ $3.1M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Touhou Mystia's Izakaya at ≈ 815k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 20k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (5 of 8) and Faith (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Time Management, priced around $6.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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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