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How big is MouseLife - Parenthood?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 223–363
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 MouseLife - Parenthood and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MouseLife - Parenthood's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 781–12k
best case 23k (Uncharted Ocean)
Games like MouseLife - Parenthood

A typical game among these

≈ 781–12k copies

≈ $2k–$55k after Steam's cut

from ~123 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Uncharted Ocean at ≈ 17k–28k copies, ≈ $24k–$64k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 212.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + 2D Platformer, priced around $5.
When they shipped
Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 36 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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