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How many copies did May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville Remastered sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 298–484
$819–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 12 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 May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville Remastered out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 523k–1.2M
best case 2.3M (The Room)
Games like May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville Remastered

The middle of these games

≈ 523k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.0M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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 Room at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Point & Click (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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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Deponia
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Est. copies
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SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$9.99
14k reviews
Very Positive
AdventurePoint & Click
The Room
2014
Est. copies
≈ 1.8M–2.9M
2.3x vs typical
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$4.99
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PuzzleMystery
Hidden Folks
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Hidden ObjectCasual
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PuzzleMystery
Rusty Lake Hotel
2016
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≈ 439k–713k
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$240k–$645k after Steam's cut $436k–$993k before the cut
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PuzzlePoint & Click
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2018
Est. copies
≈ 407k–662k
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$671k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut
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PuzzleMystery
Zup!
2016
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≈ 371k–603k
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$203k–$546k after Steam's cut $369k–$840k before the cut
$1.99
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PuzzleCasual
The Room Two
2016
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≈ 905k–1.5M
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$4.99
22k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
PuzzleMystery

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