How much revenue did Minimally Invasive make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Minimally Invasive sell?

Q: How many copies did Minimally Invasive sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 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 Minimally Invasive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Minimally Invasive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 282k–782k

best case 1.3M (Clone Drone in the Danger Zone)

Games like Minimally Invasive

A typical game among these

≈ 282k–782k copies

≈ $940k–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone at ≈ 983k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut.

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 1 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Immersive Sim (5 of 8) and Dark Humor (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + 3D Fighter, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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Poly Ego 2023	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before Steam's cut	$9.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Puzzle-PlatformerSci-fi
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Clone Drone in the Danger Zone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 983k–1.6M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut $9.8M–$22.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	40k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RobotsAction
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