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How many copies did MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 80k–130k
$329k–$884k after Steam's cut $598k–$1.4M before the cut
from 1k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 405k–1.3M
best case 3.8M (The Stanley Parable)
Games like MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 405k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.6M–$11.0M 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: The Stanley Parable at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$32.1M 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 2k to 8k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Comedy + Narration, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Comedy + Funny + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
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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