How much revenue did Steel Assault make?

$45k–$122k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Steel Assault sell?

Q: How many copies did Steel Assault sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 445 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $45k–$122k after Steam's cut $83k–$188k before Steam's cut; from 445 reviews (Mostly 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 Steel Assault and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Assault's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160k–381k

best case 585k (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R)

Games like Steel Assault

A typical game among these

≈ 160k–381k copies

≈ $685k–$1.6M 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.

Best case: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R at ≈ 446k–725k copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 263 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Fighting, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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