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How many copies did Mari and the Black Tower sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 585–950
from 17 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 Mari and the Black Tower out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mari and the Black Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 49k–174k
best case 1.1M (LISA: The Painful)
Games like Mari and the Black Tower

The middle of these games

≈ 49k–174k copies

≈ $222k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: LISA: The Painful at ≈ 849k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 226 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 115 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on JRPG (5 of 8) and RPGMaker (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Dark Humor + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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 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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