How much revenue did Mechajammer make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mechajammer sell?

Q: How many copies did Mechajammer sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 240 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut; from 240 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 Mechajammer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mechajammer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–6.1M

best case 6.0M (XCOM® 2)

Games like Mechajammer

A typical game among these

≈ 4.0M–6.1M copies

≈ $27.1M–$51.2M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: XCOM® 2 at ≈ 4.6M–7.4M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (5 of 8) and Space (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Isometric + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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