How much revenue did MOBIUS BAND* make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MOBIUS BAND* sell?

Q: How many copies did MOBIUS BAND* sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut; from 40 reviews (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 MOBIUS BAND* out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MOBIUS BAND*'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–257k

best case 2.0M (The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty)

Games like MOBIUS BAND*

The middle of these games

≈ 138k–257k copies

≈ $455k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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 Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M 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 863 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 113 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Word Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Historical, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Historical + Cooking + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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