How much revenue did Operation: Polygon Storm make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Operation: Polygon Storm sell?

Q: How many copies did Operation: Polygon Storm sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 292 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut; from 292 reviews (Mixed)

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 Operation: Polygon Storm and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Operation: Polygon Storm's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 220–15k

best case 636k (Mechabellum)

Games like Operation: Polygon Storm

A typical game among these

≈ 220–15k copies

≈ $1k–$124k after Steam's cut

from ~34 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mechabellum at ≈ 485k–788k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 11k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (8 of 8) and Action RTS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Auto Battler, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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