How much revenue did Crazy Machines 3 make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crazy Machines 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Crazy Machines 3 sell?

420k to 683k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 420k–683k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 Crazy Machines 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crazy Machines 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 882k–1.2M

best case 731k (Hardspace: Shipbreaker)

Games like Crazy Machines 3

A typical game among these

≈ 882k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.7M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Hardspace: Shipbreaker at ≈ 557k–905k copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 742 reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Sci-fi, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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Surgeon Simulator 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	17k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFunny
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