How much revenue did Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine sell?

Q: How many copies did Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 72 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 Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 186k–643k

best case 3.9M (AdVenture Capitalist)

Games like Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine

A typical game among these

≈ 186k–643k copies

≈ $509k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Idler (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: AdVenture Capitalist at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 5k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (4 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 2 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 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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Labyrinth: The Exit Is Closer 2020	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $47–$127 after Steam's cut $86–$195 before Steam's cut	$0.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	CasualAdventure
Fly Corp 2023	Est. copies ≈ 85k–138k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $350k–$941k after Steam's cut $636k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Very Positive	TransportationCasual
AdVenture Capitalist 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	ClickerIdler
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Stronghold Kingdoms 2012	Est. copies ≈ 606k–985k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Mixed	StrategyFree to Play
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