How much revenue did Medieval Machines Builder make?

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

How many copies did Medieval Machines Builder sell?

Q: How many copies did Medieval Machines Builder sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 138 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut; from 138 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 Medieval Machines Builder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Medieval Machines Builder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–1.9M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Medieval Machines Builder

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–1.9M copies

≈ $14.3M–$15.3M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M 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 31k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Destruction (6 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Open World, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 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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