How much revenue did MechNest make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MechNest sell?

Q: How many copies did MechNest sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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 MechNest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MechNest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 684k–6.2M

best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like MechNest

The middle of these games

≈ 684k–6.2M copies

≈ $6.1M–$59.4M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 340 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 137 to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
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 36 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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