How much revenue did Autonauts vs Piratebots make?

$72k–$192k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Autonauts vs Piratebots sell?

Q: How many copies did Autonauts vs Piratebots sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 525 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $72k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$296k before the cut; from 525 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Autonauts vs Piratebots out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Autonauts vs Piratebots's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 511k–983k

best case 10.3M (Schedule I)

Games like Autonauts vs Piratebots

The middle of these games

≈ 511k–983k copies

≈ $4.5M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $43.0M–$115.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 50k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 744 to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (5 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Automation, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Open World + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 3 of your 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 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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