How much revenue did MechNest make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MechNest sell?

Q: How many copies did MechNest sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–16k

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like MechNest

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–16k copies

≈ $31k–$65k after Steam's cut

from ~432 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 339 reviews in their first month; the range was 137 to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Multiplayer + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
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 36 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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