How much revenue did Mini Metro make?

$2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mini Metro sell?

Q: How many copies did Mini Metro sell?

819k to 1.3M copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 819k–1.3M; $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut; from 17k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Mini Metro and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mini Metro's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 627k–942k

best case 2.2M (SUPERHOT)

Games like Mini Metro

A typical game among these

≈ 627k–942k copies

≈ $1.1M–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: SUPERHOT at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $11.7M–$31.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 744 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and City Builder (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Bullet Time, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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ISLANDERS 2019	Est. copies ≈ 483k–786k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $663k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	17k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingCity Builder