How much revenue did Magnus Positive Phototaxis make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magnus Positive Phototaxis sell?

Q: How many copies did Magnus Positive Phototaxis sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 50 reviews (Very 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 Magnus Positive Phototaxis out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magnus Positive Phototaxis's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–3.7M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Magnus Positive Phototaxis

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–3.7M copies

≈ $2.5M–$16.1M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16 to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Psychological Horror (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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