How much revenue did Robowars make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Robowars sell?

Q: How many copies did Robowars sell?

16k to 27k copies, based on its 292 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–27k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $33k–$74k 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 Robowars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Robowars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–51k

best case 758k (Tribes of Midgard)

Games like Robowars

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–51k copies

≈ $151k–$358k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 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: Tribes of Midgard at ≈ 577k–938k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 620 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Action RPG, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 43 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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Wild world 2021	Est. copies ≈ 521–846 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $142–$381 after Steam's cut $258–$586 before Steam's cut	$0.99	21 reviews Mixed	Early AccessAction Roguelike
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Tribes of Midgard 2021	Est. copies ≈ 577k–938k 19x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	23k reviews Mostly Positive	Open World Survival CraftOnline Co-Op