How much revenue did Monster Logic make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monster Logic sell?

Q: How many copies did Monster Logic sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before Steam's cut; from 16 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 Monster Logic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monster Logic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 218k–256k

best case 188k (Turing Complete)

Games like Monster Logic

A typical game among these

≈ 218k–256k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: Turing Complete at ≈ 144k–233k copies, ≈ $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 216 reviews in their first month; the range was 33 to 262.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Programming (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Logic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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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TIS-100 2015	Est. copies ≈ 201k–326k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $386k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $702k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$6.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ProgrammingPuzzle
Turing Complete 2021	Est. copies ≈ 144k–233k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ProgrammingLogic
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