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How many copies did Mirror Layers sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–6k
$10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before the cut
from 142 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 Mirror Layers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mirror Layers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.6M
best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)
Games like Mirror Layers

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–3.6M copies

≈ $4.7M–$32.1M after Steam's cut

from ~57k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 12k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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 70 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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