How much revenue did Mirror Layers make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mirror Layers sell?

Q: How many copies did Mirror Layers sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 142 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut; from 142 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 Mirror Layers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mirror Layers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.6M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Mirror Layers

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–3.6M copies

≈ $4.7M–$32.3M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 70 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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