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How big is Rover Mechanic Challenge - ERC Competition?

Estimated owners
≈ 422–685
from 17 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Rover Mechanic Challenge - ERC Competition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rover Mechanic Challenge - ERC Competition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–10.0M
best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)
Games like Rover Mechanic Challenge - ERC Competition

The middle of these games

≈ 3.5M–10.0M copies

≈ $38.0M–$151.3M after Steam's cut

from ~127k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 26k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 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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