How much revenue did Algo Bot make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Algo Bot sell?

Q: How many copies did Algo Bot sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 190 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before Steam's cut; from 190 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 Algo Bot and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Algo Bot's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–166k

best case 188k (Turing Complete)

Games like Algo Bot

A typical game among these

≈ 20k–166k copies

≈ $114k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~858 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Turing Complete at ≈ 144k–233k copies, ≈ $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 216 reviews in their first month; the range was 152 to 701.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Programming (8 of 8) and Automation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Logic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, 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 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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