How much revenue did Mech Armada make?

$95k–$256k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mech Armada sell?

Q: How many copies did Mech Armada sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 698 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $95k–$256k after Steam's cut $173k–$394k before Steam's cut; from 698 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 Mech Armada and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mech Armada's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 848k–1.2M

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like Mech Armada

A typical game among these

≈ 848k–1.2M copies

≈ $6.0M–$11.8M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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