How much revenue did Guns of Icarus Online make?

$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guns of Icarus Online sell?

Q: How many copies did Guns of Icarus Online sell?

927k to 1.5M copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 927k–1.5M; $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut; from 15k 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 Guns of Icarus Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guns of Icarus Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–241k

best case 472k (Steam Link)

Games like Guns of Icarus Online

A typical game among these

≈ 21k–241k copies

≈ $94k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 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: Steam Link at ≈ 360k–584k copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Hand-drawn (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Steam Machine + Software.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Steam Link 2015	Est. copies ≈ 360k–584k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mostly Positive	Steam MachineSoftware
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