How much revenue did Gods Against Machines make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gods Against Machines sell?

Q: How many copies did Gods Against Machines sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 112 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before Steam's cut; from 112 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 Gods Against Machines and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gods Against Machines's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–17.1M

best case 33.8M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Gods Against Machines

A typical game among these

≈ 9.7M–17.1M copies

≈ $77.3M–$132.2M after Steam's cut

from ~332k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.8M–41.9M copies, ≈ $106.2M–$285.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 129k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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