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How many copies did Escape from Mutation Station sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–4k
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
from 101 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 Escape from Mutation Station and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape from Mutation Station's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 281k–607k
best case 1.5M (We Were Here)
Games like Escape from Mutation Station

A typical game among these

≈ 281k–607k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: We Were Here at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies.

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 712 to 6k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Mystery (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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2.3x vs typical
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