How much revenue did Screeps: Arena make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Screeps: Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did Screeps: Arena sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 126 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before the cut; from 126 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 Screeps: Arena out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Screeps: Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 143k–265k

best case 298k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like Screeps: Arena

The middle of these games

≈ 143k–265k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 227k–369k copies, ≈ $623k–$1.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (4 of 8) and Programming (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Automation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 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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Screeps: World 2016	Est. copies ≈ 87k–141k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $478k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $869k–$2.0M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ProgrammingStrategy
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