How much revenue did mine shaft make?

$28–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did mine shaft sell?

Q: How many copies did mine shaft sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$112 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 mine shaft and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including mine shaft's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 249k–1.3M

best case 1.6M (My Singing Monsters)

Games like mine shaft

A typical game among these

≈ 249k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.5M–$12.4M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: My Singing Monsters at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, and 2 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 38 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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