How much revenue did Battle Engine Aquila make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battle Engine Aquila sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle Engine Aquila sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 148 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 Battle Engine Aquila and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle Engine Aquila's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–79k

best case 1.2M (War Robots)

Games like Battle Engine Aquila

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–79k copies

≈ $41k–$142k after Steam's cut

from ~369 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: War Robots at ≈ 943k–1.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 211 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mechs (5 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + Mechs.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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).

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