How much revenue did Mayday make?

$48–$127 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mayday sell?

Q: How many copies did Mayday sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $48–$127 after Steam's cut $87–$196 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Mayday and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mayday's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–58k

best case 144k (HUNTDOWN)

Games like Mayday

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–58k copies

≈ $198k–$412k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: HUNTDOWN at ≈ 110k–179k copies, ≈ $604k–$1.6M 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 442 reviews in their first month; the range was 325 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Bullet Hell, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Indie + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 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 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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