How much revenue did Mahou Arms make?

$181k–$486k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mahou Arms sell?

Q: How many copies did Mahou Arms sell?

16k to 27k copies, based on its 663 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–27k; $181k–$486k after Steam's cut $329k–$748k before the cut; from 663 reviews (Mostly 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 Mahou Arms out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Mahou Arms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29.5M–33.5M

best case 31.9M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Mahou Arms

The middle of these games

≈ 29.5M–33.5M copies

≈ $206.6M–$474.2M after Steam's cut

from ~778k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.3M–39.4M copies, ≈ $400.4M–$1076.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 3) and Building (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.3M–39.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $400.4M–$1076.6M after Steam's cut $728.1M–$1656.3M before the cut	$59.99	979k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.5M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.3M–$296.4M after Steam's cut $200.5M–$456.1M before the cut	$14.99	778k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival