How much revenue did Mayday make?

$48–$127 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mayday sell?

Q: How many copies did Mayday sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $48–$127 after Steam's cut $87–$196 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. 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.

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–45k

best case 144k (HUNTDOWN)

Games like Mayday

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–45k copies

≈ $250k–$431k after Steam's cut

from ~969 reviews

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

5 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: HUNTDOWN at ≈ 109k–178k copies, ≈ $602k–$1.6M 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 443 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 326 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shoot 'Em Up (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Shooter, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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