How much revenue did Mob Factory make?

$49k–$131k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mob Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Mob Factory sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 478 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $49k–$131k after Steam's cut $89k–$202k before Steam's cut; from 478 reviews (Mostly 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 Mob Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mob Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–35k

best case 196k (FortressCraft Evolved!)

Games like Mob Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–35k copies

≈ $73k–$255k after Steam's cut

from ~795 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: FortressCraft Evolved! at ≈ 150k–243k copies, ≈ $534k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 323 reviews in their first month; the range was 33 to 840.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Automation, priced around $13.
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 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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