How much revenue did Mystery Of Dust make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mystery Of Dust sell?

Q: How many copies did Mystery Of Dust sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 52 reviews (Mostly 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 Mystery Of Dust out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mystery Of Dust's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 884k–1.5M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Mystery Of Dust

The middle of these games

≈ 884k–1.5M copies

≈ $8.6M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Base-Building (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (3 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry PvE + Trading Card Game + Stylized; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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