How much revenue did Screeps: Arena make?

$17k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Screeps: Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did Screeps: Arena sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 127 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $17k–$47k after Steam's cut $31k–$72k before Steam's cut; from 127 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 Screeps: Arena and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Screeps: Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 144k–270k

best case 314k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like Screeps: Arena

A typical game among these

≈ 144k–270k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 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: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 239k–389k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (4 of 8) and Programming (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Automation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Screeps: World 2016	Est. copies ≈ 87k–142k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $480k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $872k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ProgrammingStrategy
Software Inc. 2015	Est. copies ≈ 385k–625k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut	$22.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessManagement
The Farmer Was Replaced 2025	Est. copies ≈ 239k–389k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ProgrammingAutomation
Infinifactory 2015	Est. copies ≈ 121k–197k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $833k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleBuilding
Mad Games Tycoon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 184k–299k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $758k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor 2020	Est. copies ≈ 54k–88k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $296k–$796k after Steam's cut $538k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategySingleplayer
Duskers 2016	Est. copies ≈ 117k–191k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $645k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationTyping
Mad Games Tycoon 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 195k–316k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	ManagementEconomy