How much revenue did Masters of Puzzle make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Masters of Puzzle sell?

Q: How many copies did Masters of Puzzle sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 28 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 Masters of Puzzle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Masters of Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–64k

best case 4.4M (Teardown)

Games like Masters of Puzzle

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–64k copies

≈ $197k–$497k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Immersive Sim (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: Teardown at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$75.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 45 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Immersive Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Destruction + Physics, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Destruction + Voxel + Heist; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, and 2 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 38 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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