How much revenue did Murder Miners make?

$293k–$787k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Murder Miners sell?

Q: How many copies did Murder Miners sell?

356k to 579k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 356k–579k; $293k–$787k after Steam's cut $533k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Murder Miners and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Murder Miners's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–409k

best case 1.4M (Timberborn)

Games like Murder Miners

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–409k copies

≈ $145k–$6.5M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Timberborn at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $10.0M–$26.9M 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 74 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 8) and Voxel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Voxel, priced around $35.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 38 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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