How much revenue did My Mud Game make?

$765–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Mud Game sell?

Q: How many copies did My Mud Game sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $765–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–104k

best case 312k (Aliya: Timelink)

Games like My Mud Game

The middle of these games

≈ 60k–104k copies

≈ $180k–$389k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Aliya: Timelink at ≈ 238k–387k copies, ≈ $196k–$526k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 577 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Word Game (8 of 8) and Text-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $3.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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