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How many copies did Mini Ghost sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–24k
$8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$33k before the cut
from 421 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Mini Ghost out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mini Ghost's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.9M
best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)
Games like Mini Ghost

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies

≈ $19.4M–$27.3M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Metroidvania (6 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Souls-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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