How much revenue did Retro Machina make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retro Machina sell?

Q: How many copies did Retro Machina sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 257 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut; from 257 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Retro Machina and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retro Machina's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 241k–705k

best case 3.4M (Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons)

Games like Retro Machina

A typical game among these

≈ 241k–705k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons at ≈ 2.6M–4.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 515 reviews in their first month; the range was 195 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Emotional (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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Röki 2020	Est. copies ≈ 80k–130k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $440k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $800k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	AdventurePuzzle
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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	41k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
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