How much revenue did Magicite make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magicite sell?

Q: How many copies did Magicite sell?

425k to 690k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 425k–690k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut; from 8k 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 Magicite out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magicite's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.5M–8.8M

best case 10.0M (Hades)

Games like Magicite

The middle of these games

≈ 7.5M–8.8M copies

≈ $48.1M–$83.8M after Steam's cut

from ~201k 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: Hades at ≈ 7.6M–12.4M copies, ≈ $52.5M–$141.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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