How much revenue did Minds Beneath Us make?

$876k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Minds Beneath Us sell?

Q: How many copies did Minds Beneath Us sell?

159k to 259k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 159k–259k; $876k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Minds Beneath Us and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Minds Beneath Us's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 537k–1.2M

best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Minds Beneath Us

A typical game among these

≈ 537k–1.2M copies

≈ $11.0M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 722 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Futuristic + Robots + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Detroit: Become Human 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut $131.1M–$298.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	264k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
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