How much revenue did MINDHACK make?

$66k–$178k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MINDHACK sell?

Q: How many copies did MINDHACK sell?

19k to 30k copies, based on its 746 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–30k; $66k–$178k after Steam's cut $120k–$273k before the cut; from 746 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 MINDHACK out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MINDHACK's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 178k–808k

best case 1.5M (The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series)

Games like MINDHACK

The middle of these games

≈ 178k–808k copies

≈ $1.2M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.0M–$42.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 332 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 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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