How much revenue did MIMIC make?

$48–$127 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MIMIC sell?

Q: How many copies did MIMIC sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $48–$127 after Steam's cut $87–$196 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. 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 MIMIC out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MIMIC's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 773–14k

best case 152k (Duskers)

Games like MIMIC

The middle of these games

≈ 773–14k copies

≈ $40k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~170 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Duskers at ≈ 116k–189k copies, ≈ $639k–$1.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 143.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Typing, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 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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