How much revenue did Industrial Annihilation make?

$94k–$252k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Industrial Annihilation sell?

Q: How many copies did Industrial Annihilation sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 458 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $94k–$252k after Steam's cut $170k–$387k before Steam's cut; from 458 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–129k

best case 393k (Tempest Rising)

Games like Industrial Annihilation

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–129k copies

≈ $18k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~670 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tempest Rising at ≈ 299k–487k copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 593 reviews in their first month; the range was 95 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (8 of 8) and Wargame (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Base-Building, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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