How much revenue did Mini Words: Polyglot make?

$842–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mini Words: Polyglot sell?

Q: How many copies did Mini Words: Polyglot sell?

2k copies, based on its 62 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $842–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before the cut; from 62 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 Mini Words: Polyglot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mini Words: Polyglot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–7k

best case 12k (You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana)

Games like Mini Words: Polyglot

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–7k copies

≈ $2k–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~58 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: You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana at ≈ 9k–14k copies, ≈ $24k–$65k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 34.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Word Game (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Education + Typing, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2022, 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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