How much revenue did Locked In Mind make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Locked In Mind sell?

Q: How many copies did Locked In Mind sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 466 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before the cut; from 466 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 Locked In Mind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Locked In Mind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 145k–909k

best case 2.3M (The Room)

Games like Locked In Mind

The middle of these games

≈ 145k–909k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: The Room at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 117 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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