How much revenue did Bot Wars make?

$74k–$200k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bot Wars sell?

Q: How many copies did Bot Wars sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 728 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $74k–$200k after Steam's cut $135k–$308k before Steam's cut; from 728 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 Bot Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bot Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.1M–20.5M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Bot Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 11.1M–20.5M copies

≈ $143.5M–$204.8M after Steam's cut

from ~379k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. 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 200k reviews in their first month; the range was 182k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Battle Royale + PvP + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 7.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
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