How much revenue did Let's Minesweeper make?

$31k–$84k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Let's Minesweeper sell?

Q: How many copies did Let's Minesweeper sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 921 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before Steam's cut; from 921 reviews (Mostly 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 Let's Minesweeper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Let's Minesweeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 220k–384k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like Let's Minesweeper

A typical game among these

≈ 220k–384k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M 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 Logic (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Cute + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
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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