How much revenue did Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Family Edition make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Family Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Family Edition sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before Steam's cut; from 32 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 Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Family Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Family Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–9.9M

best case 17.5M (Sid Meier's Civilization® V)

Games like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Family Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 5.7M–9.9M copies

≈ $64.1M–$174.2M after Steam's cut

from ~123k 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: Sid Meier's Civilization® V at ≈ 13.3M–21.7M copies, ≈ $110.0M–$295.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Historical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Turn-Based, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2019, 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 36 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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