How much revenue did Instruments of Destruction make?

$214k–$575k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Instruments of Destruction sell?

Q: How many copies did Instruments of Destruction sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $214k–$575k after Steam's cut $389k–$884k before the cut; from 2k 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 Instruments of Destruction out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Instruments of Destruction's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.2M

best case 26.7M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Instruments of Destruction

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–3.2M copies

≈ $12.4M–$21.9M after Steam's cut

from ~41k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.3M–33.0M copies, ≈ $139.6M–$375.3M 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 28k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Destruction (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Driving + Realistic + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, and 1 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 70 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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