How many copies did MINDNIGHT sell?

102k to 165k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did MINDNIGHT make?

MINDNIGHT is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is MINDNIGHT?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 102k–165k; from 3k 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 MINDNIGHT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MINDNIGHT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–3.0M

best case 29.9M (Among Us)

Games like MINDNIGHT

A typical game among these

≈ 58k–3.0M copies

≈ $2.9M–$31.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Among Us at ≈ 22.8M–37.0M copies, ≈ $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 869 reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Social Deduction (6 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Among Us 2018	Est. copies ≈ 22.8M–37.0M 89x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut $56.8M–$129.3M before Steam's cut	$4.99	749k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerSocial Deduction
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Town of Salem 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 229k–372k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9k reviews Mixed	Free to PlaySocial Deduction
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