How much revenue did Maskmaker make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maskmaker sell?

Q: How many copies did Maskmaker sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 322 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before the cut; from 322 reviews (Very 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 Maskmaker out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maskmaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–110k

best case 2.2M (HITMAN World of Assassination)

Games like Maskmaker

The middle of these games

≈ 29k–110k copies

≈ $198k–$964k 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: HITMAN World of Assassination at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $32.7M–$87.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 318 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox, priced around $47. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Automobile Sim + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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