How much revenue did Manufactoria 2022 make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Manufactoria 2022 sell?

Q: How many copies did Manufactoria 2022 sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut; from 73 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 Manufactoria 2022 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Manufactoria 2022's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 80k–122k

best case 324k (Opus Magnum)

Games like Manufactoria 2022

The middle of these games

≈ 80k–122k copies

≈ $536k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Opus Magnum at ≈ 247k–401k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Programming (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Puzzle, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, 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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