How much revenue did Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo sell?

Q: How many copies did Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 46 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut; from 46 reviews (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 Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 223k–981k

best case 1.1M (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya)

Games like Mandinga - A Tale of Banzo

The middle of these games

≈ 223k–981k copies

≈ $3.0M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Touhou Mystia's Izakaya at ≈ 810k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 20k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (5 of 8) and Faith (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Time Management, priced around $6.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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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