How much revenue did Melting World Online make?

Melting World Online is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Melting World Online sell?

Q: How many copies did Melting World Online sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; from 78 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 Melting World Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Melting World Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285k–981k

best case 1.3M (BATTLETECH)

Games like Melting World Online

A typical game among these

≈ 285k–981k copies

≈ $4.8M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: BATTLETECH at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mechs (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $40.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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