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How many copies did Spooky Mahjong sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 843–1k
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut
from 34 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Spooky Mahjong out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spooky Mahjong's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 618k–1.2M
best case 1.3M (Unpacking)
Games like Spooky Mahjong

The middle of these games

≈ 618k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.3M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Unpacking at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.9M 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 580 to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Hidden Object (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Pixel Graphics + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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 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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