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How many copies did Key: Maze of Illusions sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$109–$293 after Steam's cut $198–$450 before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Key: Maze of Illusions out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Key: Maze of Illusions's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–2k
best case 3k (JustAxe)
Games like Key: Maze of Illusions

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–2k copies

≈ $3k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~54 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: JustAxe at ≈ 2k–3k copies, ≈ $6k–$16k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 44.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer + Arcade, priced around $11.
The era
Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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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