How much revenue did Museum No.9 make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Museum No.9 sell?

Q: How many copies did Museum No.9 sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 268 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$76k before the cut; from 268 reviews (Mostly 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 Museum No.9 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Museum No.9's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–8k

best case 42k (沉默的蟋蟀)

Games like Museum No.9

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–8k copies

≈ $21k–$46k after Steam's cut

from ~226 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: 沉默的蟋蟀 at ≈ 32k–53k copies, ≈ $133k–$359k 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 238 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 45 to 610.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Rogue-lite, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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