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How big is The Mad Pantser?

Estimated owners
≈ 496–806
from 20 reviews (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 The Mad Pantser out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Mad Pantser's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 438k–1.1M
best case 1.5M (Fran Bow)
Games like The Mad Pantser

The middle of these games

≈ 438k–1.1M copies

≈ $482k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Fran Bow at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Point & Click (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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Est. copies
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SteamSpy 200k–500k
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$3.99
8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
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Cube Escape Collection
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SteamSpy 200k–500k
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$270k–$726k after Steam's cut $491k–$1.1M before the cut
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Fran Bow
2015
Est. copies
≈ 1.1M–1.8M
2.3x vs typical
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$240k–$645k after Steam's cut $436k–$993k before the cut
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The Room Two
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Est. copies
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