How much revenue did shapez 2 - Factory make?

$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did shapez 2 - Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did shapez 2 - Factory sell?

385k to 625k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 385k–625k; $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut; from 16k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 shapez 2 - Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including shapez 2 - Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–19k

best case 32k (Microtopia)

Games like shapez 2 - Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–19k copies

≈ $20k–$180k after Steam's cut

from ~305 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Microtopia at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $133k–$357k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 193 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 737.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (7 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Automation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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