How much revenue did Tank Mechanic Simulator make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tank Mechanic Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Tank Mechanic Simulator sell?

235k to 382k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 235k–382k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Tank Mechanic Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tank Mechanic Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–8.6M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Tank Mechanic Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 4.5M–8.6M copies

≈ $78.0M–$88.8M after Steam's cut

from ~132k 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.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share World War II (5 of 8) and War (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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