How much revenue did Mahjong World Contest (麻将) make?

$38k–$101k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mahjong World Contest (麻将) sell?

Q: How many copies did Mahjong World Contest (麻将) sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 219 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $38k–$101k after Steam's cut $68k–$155k before the cut; from 219 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Mahjong World Contest (麻将) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mahjong World Contest (麻将)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.0M–14.3M

best case 124.3M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Mahjong World Contest (麻将)

The middle of these games

≈ 7.0M–14.3M copies

≈ $38.0M–$88.0M after Steam's cut

from ~218k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Card Game (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.7M–153.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 55k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (2 of 8) and Deckbuilding (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Battle Royale + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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