How much revenue did Mars Power Industries Deluxe make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mars Power Industries Deluxe sell?

Q: How many copies did Mars Power Industries Deluxe sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 689 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut; from 689 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 Mars Power Industries Deluxe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mars Power Industries Deluxe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–72k

best case 362k (Virtual Cottage)

Games like Mars Power Industries Deluxe

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–72k copies

≈ $46k–$198k after Steam's cut

from ~707 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Life Sim (4 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: Virtual Cottage at ≈ 275k–448k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 222 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 442.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Life Sim.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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