How much revenue did Mining Factory make?

$579–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mining Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Mining Factory sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $579–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 17 reviews (Mixed)

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 Mining Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mining Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–62k

best case 484k (Rusty's Retirement)

Games like Mining Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 48k–62k copies

≈ $114k–$238k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Rusty's Retirement at ≈ 369k–600k copies, ≈ $709k–$1.9M 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 880 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Automation, priced around $8.
When they shipped: 7 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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