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How many copies did MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 80k–130k
$329k–$885k after Steam's cut $599k–$1.4M before Steam's cut
from 1k 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 MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 410k–1.3M
best case 3.8M (The Stanley Parable)
Games like MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 410k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.7M–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: The Stanley Parable at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$32.1M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 8k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share First-Person (7 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Comedy + Narration, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Comedy + Funny + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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