How much revenue did Pixel Game Maker MV make?

$403k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel Game Maker MV sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel Game Maker MV sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 599 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $403k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $733k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 599 reviews (Mixed)

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 Pixel Game Maker MV and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Game Maker MV's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–1.6M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Pixel Game Maker MV

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–1.6M copies

≈ $122k–$1.3M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Design & Illustration (3 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Design & Illustration (3 of 8) and Game Development (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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