How much revenue did MOTHERGUNSHIP make?

$340k–$913k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MOTHERGUNSHIP sell?

Q: How many copies did MOTHERGUNSHIP sell?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $340k–$913k after Steam's cut $618k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 MOTHERGUNSHIP and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MOTHERGUNSHIP's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 414k–1.8M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like MOTHERGUNSHIP

A typical game among these

≈ 414k–1.8M copies

≈ $3.7M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 926 to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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