How much revenue did The soldier in the mine make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The soldier in the mine sell?

Q: How many copies did The soldier in the mine sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 140 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 140 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 620k–779k

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like The soldier in the mine

The middle of these games

≈ 620k–779k copies

≈ $3.0M–$3.7M 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2019, 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 36 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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