How much revenue did Automation Empire make?

$628k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Automation Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Automation Empire sell?

76k to 124k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 76k–124k; $628k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Automation Empire out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Automation Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–9.1M

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like Automation Empire

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–9.1M copies

≈ $20.2M–$94.3M after Steam's cut

from ~92k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 89k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (3 of 5) and Base-Building (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of your 5 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 61 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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