How much revenue did Steel Assault make?

$45k–$122k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Steel Assault sell?

Q: How many copies did Steel Assault sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 445 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $45k–$122k after Steam's cut $83k–$188k before the cut; from 445 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 Steel Assault out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Assault's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 159k–378k

best case 578k (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R)

Games like Steel Assault

The middle of these games

≈ 159k–378k copies

≈ $683k–$1.5M 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.

Best case: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R at ≈ 440k–716k copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 263 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Fighting, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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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