How much revenue did Battle Engine Aquila make?

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

How many copies did Battle Engine Aquila sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle Engine Aquila sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 145 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut; from 145 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 Battle Engine Aquila out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle Engine Aquila's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–77k

best case 1.2M (War Robots)

Games like Battle Engine Aquila

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–77k copies

≈ $41k–$140k after Steam's cut

from ~367 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: War Robots at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 212 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mechs (5 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + Mechs.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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