How much revenue did An Engineer and the Great Machine make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did An Engineer and the Great Machine sell?

Q: How many copies did An Engineer and the Great Machine sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (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 An Engineer and the Great Machine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including An Engineer and the Great Machine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–919k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like An Engineer and the Great Machine

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–919k copies

≈ $36k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~368 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: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 981k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 6k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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).

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Word Factori 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$81k before Steam's cut	$5.99	480 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleProgramming
Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 981k–1.6M 93x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before Steam's cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 48x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
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