How much revenue did 14 Minesweeper Variants make?

$79k–$213k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 14 Minesweeper Variants sell?

Q: How many copies did 14 Minesweeper Variants sell?

41k to 67k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 41k–67k; $79k–$213k after Steam's cut $144k–$327k before the cut; from 2k 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 14 Minesweeper Variants out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 14 Minesweeper Variants's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–104k

best case 300k (Human Resource Machine)

Games like 14 Minesweeper Variants

The middle of these games

≈ 20k–104k copies

≈ $38k–$222k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Resource Machine at ≈ 229k–371k copies, ≈ $942k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 75 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 144.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Experimental (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Puzzle, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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