How much revenue did Model Builder: Complete Edition make?

$175k–$469k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Model Builder: Complete Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Model Builder: Complete Edition sell?

32k to 52k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–52k; $175k–$469k after Steam's cut $317k–$722k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 Model Builder: Complete Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Model Builder: Complete Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–9.7M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Model Builder: Complete Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–9.7M copies

≈ $43.0M–$119.9M after Steam's cut

from ~200k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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