How much revenue did Maku make?

$836–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maku sell?

Q: How many copies did Maku sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $836–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$3k before the cut; from 41 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 Maku out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maku's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–13k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Maku

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–13k copies

≈ $11k–$27k after Steam's cut

from ~215 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Bullet Hell (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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M 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 104 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 61 to 244.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (3 of 8) and FPS (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Card Game + Multiplayer + Tabletop; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 253x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before the cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Astro Looter: Survivor 2024	Est. copies ≈ 11k–17k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before the cut	$1.99	429 reviews Mixed	Bullet HellArena Shooter
Super Hexagon 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 117x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before the cut	$2.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultGreat Soundtrack
Putt-Putt® Goes to the Moon 2014	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before the cut	$6.99	271 reviews Very Positive	AdventureCasual
Project RIP 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before the cut	$13.99	134 reviews Mixed	GoreViolent
Angry Angry Shark 2022	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	320 reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
When the Light Dies 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut	$4.99	99 reviews Mostly Positive	Top-Down ShooterTwin Stick Shooter
Rotten Flesh - Cosmic Horror Survival Game 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut	$11.99	158 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureHorror