How many copies did MicroWorks sell?

48k to 78k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did MicroWorks make?

MicroWorks is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is MicroWorks?

Estimated owners: ≈ 48k–78k; 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 MicroWorks out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MicroWorks's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 363k–1.2M

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

Games like MicroWorks

The middle of these games

≈ 363k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.2M–$22.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Character Customization (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: ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies, ≈ $35.0M–$94.2M after Steam's cut.

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 764 to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Character Customization (4 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Character Customization, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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