How much revenue did The Mythical City make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Mythical City sell?

Q: How many copies did The Mythical City sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 49 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 The Mythical City and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Mythical City's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 112k–166k

best case 378k (Out There Somewhere)

Games like The Mythical City

A typical game among these

≈ 112k–166k copies

≈ $239k–$444k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Out There Somewhere at ≈ 288k–468k copies, ≈ $791k–$2.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, 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 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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Polarity 2016	Est. copies ≈ 194k–316k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $694k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$12.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
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