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How many copies did Pixel Game Maker Series MEDIUM-NAUT sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$919–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Only 9 reviews 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 Pixel Game Maker Series MEDIUM-NAUT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Game Maker Series MEDIUM-NAUT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–8k
best case 62k (Stay Out of the House)
Games like Pixel Game Maker Series MEDIUM-NAUT

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–8k copies

≈ $18k–$72k after Steam's cut

from ~144 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stay Out of the House at ≈ 47k–76k copies, ≈ $194k–$520k 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 84 reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 419.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Survival Horror (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Immersive Sim + Gore + Retro; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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