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How many copies did Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
from 54 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 Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–1.8M
best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)
Games like Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–1.8M copies

≈ $29k–$11.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 238 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 31k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Escape Room (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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