How much revenue did Cogmind make?

$473k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cogmind sell?

Q: How many copies did Cogmind sell?

69k to 112k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 69k–112k; $473k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $860k–$2.0M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Cogmind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cogmind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 431k–669k

best case 1.2M (Stoneshard)

Games like Cogmind

The middle of these games

≈ 431k–669k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Stoneshard at ≈ 880k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Traditional Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Survival, priced around $25.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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