How much revenue did Little Mages make?

$28–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Little Mages sell?

Q: How many copies did Little Mages sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$113 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. 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 Little Mages out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Little Mages's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 509k–1.6M

best case 1.9M (Skul: The Hero Slayer)

Games like Little Mages

The middle of these games

≈ 509k–1.6M copies

≈ $1.5M–$9.2M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Skul: The Hero Slayer at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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