How much revenue did Mindlock - The Apartment make?

$69k–$187k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mindlock - The Apartment sell?

Q: How many copies did Mindlock - The Apartment sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 679 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $69k–$187k after Steam's cut $126k–$287k before the cut; from 679 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Mindlock - The Apartment out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mindlock - The Apartment's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.7M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Mindlock - The Apartment

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.7M copies

≈ $6.2M–$14.6M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Puzzle (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Puzzle-Platformer + First-Person + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2020, and none of them 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.5M–20.4M 6.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.5M before the cut	$9.99	198k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Sally Face - Episode One 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before the cut	$2.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story Rich Psychological Horror
Superliminal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 843k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.2M before the cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
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Surgeon Simulator 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut	$9.99	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFunny
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