How much revenue did Mystery Boxes make?

$218–$585 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mystery Boxes sell?

Q: How many copies did Mystery Boxes sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $218–$585 after Steam's cut $396–$900 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. 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 Mystery Boxes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mystery Boxes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–106k

best case 618k (A Little to the Left)

Games like Mystery Boxes

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–106k copies

≈ $40k–$692k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 209 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 50 to 580.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Wholesome (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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