How much revenue did 14 Minesweeper Variants make?

$80k–$215k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 14 Minesweeper Variants sell?

Q: How many copies did 14 Minesweeper Variants sell?

42k to 68k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–68k; $80k–$215k after Steam's cut $146k–$331k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 14 Minesweeper Variants and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 14 Minesweeper Variants's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 91k–165k

best case 301k (Human Resource Machine)

Games like 14 Minesweeper Variants

A typical game among these

≈ 91k–165k copies

≈ $190k–$610k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Resource Machine at ≈ 230k–373k copies, ≈ $946k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 75 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 144.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Experimental (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Puzzle, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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