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How big is Miska's Cave?

Estimated owners
≈ 5k–7k
from 186 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 Miska's Cave out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Miska's Cave's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196–367
best case 2k (Neko Journey)
Games like Miska's Cave

The middle of these games

≈ 196–367 copies

≈ $198–$962 after Steam's cut

from ~8 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Neko Journey at ≈ 1k–2k copies, ≈ $2k–$5k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 31 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 Side Scroller (6 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Runner + Souls-like, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Runner + Puzzle-Platformer + Souls-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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