How much revenue did Mind Games make?

$12k–$33k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mind Games sell?

Q: How many copies did Mind Games sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 215 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before Steam's cut; from 215 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 Games and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mind Games's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–121k

best case 1.8M (Liar's Bar)

Games like Mind Games

A typical game among these

≈ 72k–121k copies

≈ $38k–$630k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Board Game (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Liar's Bar at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M 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 756 reviews in their first month; the range was 50 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Puzzle, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based Strategy + Indie + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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