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How many copies did Maniac Path sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$285–$767 after Steam's cut $519–$1k before the cut
from 14 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 Maniac Path out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maniac Path's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–650k
best case 1.0M (ASTLIBRA Revision)
Games like Maniac Path

The middle of these games

≈ 92k–650k copies

≈ $518k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: ASTLIBRA Revision at ≈ 784k–1.3M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 534 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Side Scroller (6 of 8) and Looter Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action RPG + Side Scroller, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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