How much revenue did Contraption Maker make?

$263k–$708k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Contraption Maker sell?

Q: How many copies did Contraption Maker sell?

74k to 120k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74k–120k; $263k–$708k after Steam's cut $479k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Contraption Maker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Contraption Maker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 660k–1.9M

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Contraption Maker

A typical game among these

≈ 660k–1.9M copies

≈ $3.3M–$11.4M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (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: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (3 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2020, and none of them 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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BattleBlock Theater® 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-op Platformer
Gunpoint 2013	Est. copies ≈ 843k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthIndie
Door Kickers: Action Squad 2018	Est. copies ≈ 323k–524k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.1M before Steam's cut	$13.99	11k reviews Very Positive	2D PlatformerPixel Graphics
DDNet 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	47k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
Bridge Constructor Portal 2017	Est. copies ≈ 259k–421k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $712k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Simulation
Door Kickers 2014	Est. copies ≈ 563k–915k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	TacticalStrategy
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 712k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty