How much revenue did Sketchbots make?

$478–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sketchbots sell?

Q: How many copies did Sketchbots sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k

best case 935k (Baba Is You)

Games like Sketchbots

A typical game among these

≈ 2k copies

≈ $4k–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~59 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M 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 68 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 262.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Programming (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Logic + Automation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2026, and 3 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M 419x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Electrogical 2026	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut	$7.99	90 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessPuzzle
Code Wizard: Java Edition 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$5.99	41 reviews Positive	EducationProgramming
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $49k–$131k after Steam's cut $88k–$201k before Steam's cut	$17.99	396 reviews Mostly Positive	ProgrammingAutomation
ComPressure 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$4.99	68 reviews Very Positive	AutomationProgramming
Infinite Turtles 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut	$9.99	50 reviews Very Positive	ProgrammingLogic
Word Factori 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k 8.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$81k before Steam's cut	$5.99	480 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleProgramming
Bombe 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $26k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$109k before Steam's cut	$9.99	385 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleCasual