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How many copies did Miryam: The Polluted Land sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before the cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 9 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.

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We left Miryam: The Polluted Land out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Miryam: The Polluted Land's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–12.9M
best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)
Games like Miryam: The Polluted Land

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–12.9M copies

≈ $23.1M–$98.5M after Steam's cut

from ~110k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Tower Defense (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Tower Defense (4 of 8) and Base-Building (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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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