How much revenue did HARDCORE MECHA make?

$426k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HARDCORE MECHA sell?

Q: How many copies did HARDCORE MECHA sell?

77k to 126k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 77k–126k; $426k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $774k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 HARDCORE MECHA and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HARDCORE MECHA's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 306k–1.1M

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like HARDCORE MECHA

A typical game among these

≈ 306k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.3M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Base-Building (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (3 of 8) and RTS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Trailmakers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut $14.2M–$32.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	39k reviews Very Positive	SpaceAction
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