How much revenue did MINDHACK make?

$66k–$178k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MINDHACK sell?

Q: How many copies did MINDHACK sell?

19k to 30k copies, based on its 749 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–30k; $66k–$178k after Steam's cut $121k–$274k before Steam's cut; from 749 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 MINDHACK and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MINDHACK's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 151k–265k

best case 1.5M (The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series)

Games like MINDHACK

A typical game among these

≈ 151k–265k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.5M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 332 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Female Protagonist + LGBTQ+; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 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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