How much revenue did Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot sell?

Q: How many copies did Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 127 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$47k before the cut; from 127 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 302k–2.7M

best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot

The middle of these games

≈ 302k–2.7M copies

≈ $4.2M–$53.0M after Steam's cut

from ~23k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.6M copies, ≈ $71.5M–$192.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Robots (5 of 8) and Cyberpunk (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 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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