How much revenue did Mech Mechanic Simulator make?

$96k–$258k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mech Mechanic Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Mech Mechanic Simulator sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 703 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $96k–$258k after Steam's cut $174k–$396k before Steam's cut; from 703 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Mech Mechanic Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mech Mechanic Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–168k

best case 1.6M (Generation Zero®)

Games like Mech Mechanic Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–168k copies

≈ $94k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Base-Building (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Generation Zero® at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $8.4M–$22.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 731 reviews in their first month; the range was 327 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (4 of 8) and Crafting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 2 of the 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 70 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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