How much revenue did Robocraft make?

Robocraft is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Robocraft sell?

Q: How many copies did Robocraft sell?

4.0M to 6.6M copies, based on its 117k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.0M–6.6M; from 117k 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 Robocraft and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Robocraft's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 636k–1.4M

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like Robocraft

A typical game among these

≈ 636k–1.4M copies

≈ $10.0M–$11.8M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Building (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: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (4 of 8) and Robots (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
Gear Up 2015	Est. copies ≈ 407k–661k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
TerraTech 2018	Est. copies ≈ 761k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$14.1M after Steam's cut $9.5M–$21.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	25k reviews Very Positive	BuildingSandbox
Trailmakers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut $14.2M–$32.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	39k reviews Very Positive	SpaceAction
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS 2015	Est. copies ≈ 718k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	15k reviews Very Positive	RTSStrategy
Guns and Robots 2014	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayAction
XERA: Survival 2021	Est. copies ≈ 197k–320k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Mixed	Base-BuildingOpen World Survival Craft
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor 2020	Est. copies ≈ 54k–88k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $296k–$796k after Steam's cut $538k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategySingleplayer