How much revenue did Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 89 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before Steam's cut; from 89 reviews (Mostly 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 Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 135k–463k

best case 1.3M (BATTLETECH)

Games like Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics

A typical game among these

≈ 135k–463k copies

≈ $1.4M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: BATTLETECH at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mechs (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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