How much revenue did Mysterious House make?

$885–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mysterious House sell?

Q: How many copies did Mysterious House sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $885–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (Mostly 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 Mysterious House and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mysterious House's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–355k

best case 1.5M (Your Only Move Is HUSTLE)

Games like Mysterious House

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–355k copies

≈ $145k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~912 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Your Only Move Is HUSTLE at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 240 reviews in their first month; the range was 34 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 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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