How much revenue did Bots Are Stupid make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bots Are Stupid sell?

Q: How many copies did Bots Are Stupid sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 234 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$86k before Steam's cut; from 234 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 Bots Are Stupid and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bots Are Stupid's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–76k

best case 311k (while True: learn())

Games like Bots Are Stupid

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–76k copies

≈ $3k–$245k after Steam's cut

from ~67 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: while True: learn() at ≈ 237k–386k copies, ≈ $848k–$2.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 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 Programming (8 of 8) and Coding (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Simulation, priced around $13.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 61 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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TIS-100 2015	Est. copies ≈ 201k–326k 61x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $386k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $702k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$6.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ProgrammingPuzzle
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k 5.9x 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
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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
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