How much revenue did Eight-Minute Empire make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eight-Minute Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Eight-Minute Empire sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 128 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut; from 128 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 Eight-Minute Empire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eight-Minute Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–151k

best case 2.3M (Pummel Party)

Games like Eight-Minute Empire

A typical game among these

≈ 111k–151k copies

≈ $697k–$963k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pummel Party at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (7 of 8) and 4 Player Local (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Board Game, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Party Game + Minigames; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Pummel Party 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$30.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	58k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerFunny
Steam: Rails to Riches 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut	$9.99	121 reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyBoard Game
No Time to Relax 2019	Est. copies ≈ 84k–137k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $324k–$872k after Steam's cut $589k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$13.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Multiplayer4 Player Local
THE GAME OF LIFE 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 115k–187k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $719k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$12.49	5k reviews Mostly Positive	Board GameMultiplayer
Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 109k–178k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $511k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $928k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$16.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Board GameLocal Multiplayer
Party Panic 2017	Est. copies ≈ 119k–194k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $558k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut	$16.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Multiplayer4 Player Local
Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles 2022	Est. copies ≈ 69k–113k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzleBoard Game
Istanbul: Digital Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 8k–14k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $55k–$125k before Steam's cut	$12.99	279 reviews Very Positive	CasualStrategy