How much revenue did Maize make?

$245k–$658k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Maize sell?

Q: How many copies did Maize sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $245k–$658k after Steam's cut $445k–$1.0M before the cut; from 2k 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 Maize out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Maize's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 657k–1.5M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Maize

The middle of these games

≈ 657k–1.5M copies

≈ $4.3M–$8.5M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + First-Person, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry First-Person + Puzzle-Platformer + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, 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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