How much revenue did Mind make?

$49k–$131k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mind sell?

Q: How many copies did Mind sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 396 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $49k–$131k after Steam's cut $88k–$201k before the cut; from 396 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Mind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–52k

best case 56k (Thrive)

Games like Mind

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–52k copies

≈ $153k–$286k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Artificial Intelligence (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Thrive at ≈ 43k–70k copies, ≈ $59k–$158k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 122.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Artificial Intelligence (4 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Science, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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