How much revenue did AirMech Wastelands make?

$52k–$139k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AirMech Wastelands sell?

Q: How many copies did AirMech Wastelands sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 412 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $52k–$139k after Steam's cut $94k–$214k before Steam's cut; from 412 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 AirMech Wastelands and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AirMech Wastelands's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 455k–866k

best case 636k (Mechabellum)

Games like AirMech Wastelands

A typical game among these

≈ 455k–866k copies

≈ $3.7M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Mechabellum at ≈ 485k–788k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (8 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Auto Battler, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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Mechabellum 2024	Est. copies ≈ 485k–788k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	20k reviews Very Positive	StrategyMechs
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