How much revenue did Mecha Knights: Nightmare make?

$178k–$479k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mecha Knights: Nightmare sell?

Q: How many copies did Mecha Knights: Nightmare sell?

40k to 66k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–66k; $178k–$479k after Steam's cut $324k–$736k before the cut; from 2k 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 Mecha Knights: Nightmare out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mecha Knights: Nightmare's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–35k

best case 2.8M (ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™)

Games like Mecha Knights: Nightmare

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–35k copies

≈ $164k–$414k after Steam's cut

from ~746 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies, ≈ $35.0M–$94.2M 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 479 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mechs (8 of 8) and Robots (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Character Customization, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Third Person + Fast-Paced; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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