How much revenue did Minds Beneath Us make?

$860k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Minds Beneath Us sell?

Q: How many copies did Minds Beneath Us sell?

156k to 254k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 156k–254k; $860k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Minds Beneath Us out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Minds Beneath Us's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 535k–1.2M

best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Minds Beneath Us

The middle of these games

≈ 535k–1.2M copies

≈ $10.8M–$18.7M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.2M–$191.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 723 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Futuristic + Robots + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
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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