How much revenue did Mercenary Squad Auto Chess make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mercenary Squad Auto Chess sell?

Q: How many copies did Mercenary Squad Auto Chess sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $743–$2k before Steam's cut; from 10 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 Mercenary Squad Auto Chess and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mercenary Squad Auto Chess's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–77k

best case 675k (Backpack Battles)

Games like Mercenary Squad Auto Chess

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–77k copies

≈ $8k–$512k after Steam's cut

from ~209 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: Backpack Battles at ≈ 515k–836k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 154 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Inventory Management, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 7 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 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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