How much revenue did Instruments of Destruction make?

$215k–$577k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Instruments of Destruction sell?

Q: How many copies did Instruments of Destruction sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $215k–$577k after Steam's cut $390k–$888k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Instruments of Destruction and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Instruments of Destruction's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.3M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Instruments of Destruction

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–3.3M copies

≈ $12.5M–$22.0M after Steam's cut

from ~42k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M 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 28k reviews in their first month; the range was 13k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (8 of 8) and Destruction (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Driving + Realistic + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 1 of the 8 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 70 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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BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.5M–33.4M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut $256.7M–$584.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
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