How much revenue did Mindustry make?

$2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mindustry sell?

Q: How many copies did Mindustry sell?

803k to 1.3M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 803k–1.3M; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before the cut; from 28k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

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 Mindustry out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mindustry's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 887k–1.4M

best case 7.6M (Factorio)

Games like Mindustry

The middle of these games

≈ 887k–1.4M copies

≈ $6.6M–$9.3M after Steam's cut

from ~24k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Factorio at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Survival, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Survival + Automation + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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