How much revenue did BATTLETECH make?

$11.1M–$29.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BATTLETECH sell?

Q: How many copies did BATTLETECH sell?

1.0M to 1.6M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.6M; $11.1M–$29.9M after Steam's cut $20.2M–$46.0M before Steam's cut; from 33k 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 BATTLETECH and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BATTLETECH's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–190k

best case 896k (Into the Breach)

Games like BATTLETECH

A typical game among these

≈ 22k–190k copies

≈ $172k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~990 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Into the Breach at ≈ 682k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 418 reviews in their first month; the range was 303 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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