How much revenue did Fighting Robots make?

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

How many copies did Fighting Robots sell?

Q: How many copies did Fighting Robots sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 244 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 244 reviews (Mixed)

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 Fighting Robots and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fighting Robots's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 51k–104k

best case 1.3M (Clone Drone in the Danger Zone)

Games like Fighting Robots

A typical game among these

≈ 51k–104k copies

≈ $999k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is VR (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: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone at ≈ 983k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M 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 766 reviews in their first month; the range was 178 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (4 of 8) and Sci-fi (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + 3D Fighter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Fighting + Indie + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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