How many copies did MechWarrior Online™ Legends sell?

627k to 1.0M copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did MechWarrior Online™ Legends make?

MechWarrior Online™ Legends is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is MechWarrior Online™ Legends?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 627k–1.0M; from 13k 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 MechWarrior Online™ Legends and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MechWarrior Online™ Legends's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 711k–1.3M

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like MechWarrior Online™ Legends

A typical game among these

≈ 711k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.8M–$11.8M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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 Robots (3 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: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Robots (3 of 8) and RTS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2020, 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 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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Supreme Commander 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 821k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut	$12.99	13k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRTS
Trailmakers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.5x 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
Vanquish 2017	Est. copies ≈ 275k–447k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	ActionThird-Person Shooter
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis 2020	Est. copies ≈ 613k–995k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	25k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayCharacter Customization
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
Blacklight: Retribution 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	16k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
War Robots 2018	Est. copies ≈ 943k–1.5M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	31k reviews Mixed	RobotsMechs
AirMech 2018	Est. copies ≈ 330k–537k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy