How much revenue did Secrets of Magonia make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Secrets of Magonia sell?

Q: How many copies did Secrets of Magonia sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 99 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$31k before Steam's cut; from 99 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 Secrets of Magonia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Secrets of Magonia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 164k–319k

best case 175k (Necrosmith)

Games like Secrets of Magonia

A typical game among these

≈ 164k–319k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Necrosmith at ≈ 133k–216k copies, ≈ $109k–$294k 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 1k to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and RTS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Action Roguelike, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, 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 79 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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