How much revenue did Mysteries of Perception make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mysteries of Perception sell?

Q: How many copies did Mysteries of Perception sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 29 reviews (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 Mysteries of Perception and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mysteries of Perception's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 132k–249k

best case 359k (The Case of the Golden Idol)

Games like Mysteries of Perception

A typical game among these

≈ 132k–249k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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 Case of the Golden Idol at ≈ 273k–444k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 788 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (8 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Detective, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 2 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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