How much revenue did Miner Gun Builder make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Miner Gun Builder sell?

Q: How many copies did Miner Gun Builder sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 93 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 93 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 Miner Gun Builder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Miner Gun Builder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–29k

best case 161k (Altitude)

Games like Miner Gun Builder

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–29k copies

≈ $22k–$36k after Steam's cut

from ~272 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: Altitude at ≈ 123k–200k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 70 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 258.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Side Scroller (8 of 8) and Flight (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Side Scroller.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 79 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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