How much revenue did Magnus Positive Phototaxis make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magnus Positive Phototaxis sell?

Q: How many copies did Magnus Positive Phototaxis sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 51 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 Magnus Positive Phototaxis and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magnus Positive Phototaxis's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–3.8M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Magnus Positive Phototaxis

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–3.8M copies

≈ $2.5M–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Psychological Horror (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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