How much revenue did Retro Machina make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retro Machina sell?

Q: How many copies did Retro Machina sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 256 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before the cut; from 256 reviews (Very 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 Retro Machina out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retro Machina's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 241k–694k

best case 3.4M (Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons)

Games like Retro Machina

The middle of these games

≈ 241k–694k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons at ≈ 2.6M–4.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 516 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 196 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Emotional (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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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