How much revenue did McDROID make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did McDROID sell?

Q: How many copies did McDROID sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 217 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before Steam's cut; from 217 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 McDROID and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including McDROID's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196–684

best case 22k (World Crafter TD)

Games like McDROID

A typical game among these

≈ 196–684 copies

≈ $433–$712 after Steam's cut

from ~15 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: World Crafter TD at ≈ 17k–28k copies, ≈ $70k–$189k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 177 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 Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Tower Defense, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
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 38 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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