How much revenue did Mari and the Black Tower make?

Mari and the Black Tower is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Mari and the Black Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did Mari and the Black Tower sell?

585 to 950 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 585–950; from 17 reviews (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 Mari and the Black Tower and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mari and the Black Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 49k–174k

best case 1.1M (LISA: The Painful)

Games like Mari and the Black Tower

A typical game among these

≈ 49k–174k copies

≈ $223k–$1.5M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: LISA: The Painful at ≈ 851k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 226 reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (5 of 8) and RPGMaker (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark Humor + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2022, 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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Rise of the Third Power 2022	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $82k–$220k after Steam's cut $149k–$339k before Steam's cut	$19.99	601 reviews Very Positive	RPGJRPG
LISA: The Painful 2014	Est. copies ≈ 851k–1.4M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Dark HumorRPG
LiEat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 195k–317k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $160k–$431k after Steam's cut $292k–$664k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
巅峰骑士团 2019	Est. copies ≈ 37k–60k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$253k before Steam's cut	$5.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ActionRPG
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