How much revenue did Maniac make?

$64k–$171k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maniac sell?

Q: How many copies did Maniac sell?

46k to 75k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–75k; $64k–$171k after Steam's cut $116k–$263k before the cut; from 2k 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 Maniac out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maniac's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–13k

best case 129k (OTXO)

Games like Maniac

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–13k copies

≈ $5k–$86k after Steam's cut

from ~102 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: OTXO at ≈ 98k–159k copies, ≈ $404k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 514 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $15.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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