How much revenue did Automata Break make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Automata Break sell?

Q: How many copies did Automata Break sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 16 reviews (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 Automata Break out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Automata Break's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 276k–1.0M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Automata Break

The middle of these games

≈ 276k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.3M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M 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 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 985 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Classic + Team-Based; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 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 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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