How much revenue did Steel Warrior make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Steel Warrior sell?

Q: How many copies did Steel Warrior sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $297–$674 before Steam's cut; from 12 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 Steel Warrior and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Warrior's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 924k–5.3M

best case 5.8M (Mad Max)

Games like Steel Warrior

A typical game among these

≈ 924k–5.3M copies

≈ $25.4M–$50.7M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mad Max at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 573 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Vehicular Combat, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2025, 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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Mad Max 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut $44.2M–$100.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	91k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldVehicular Combat
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