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How big is MouseLife - Parenthood?

Estimated owners
≈ 223–363
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 9 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 781–11k
best case 23k (Uncharted Ocean)
Games like MouseLife - Parenthood

The middle of these games

≈ 781–11k copies

≈ $2k–$55k after Steam's cut

from ~117 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Uncharted Ocean at ≈ 17k–28k copies, ≈ $24k–$64k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 212.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + 2D Platformer, priced around $5.
The era
Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 36 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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