How much revenue did Locked In Mind make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Locked In Mind sell?

Q: How many copies did Locked In Mind sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 467 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut; from 467 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 Locked In Mind and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Locked In Mind's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 146k–912k

best case 2.3M (The Room)

Games like Locked In Mind

A typical game among these

≈ 146k–912k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: The Room at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 117 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 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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