How much revenue did Pixel Game Maker MV make?

$404k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel Game Maker MV sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel Game Maker MV sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 600 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $404k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $734k–$1.7M before the cut; from 600 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 Pixel Game Maker MV out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Game Maker MV's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–1.6M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Pixel Game Maker MV

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–1.6M copies

≈ $121k–$1.3M 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Design & Illustration (3 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Design & Illustration (3 of 8) and Game Development (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 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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