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How many copies did Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$47k before the cut
from 127 reviews (Very 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 Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 302k–2.7M
best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)
Games like Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot

The middle of these games

≈ 302k–2.7M copies

≈ $4.1M–$52.8M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.2M–$191.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Robots (5 of 8) and Cyberpunk (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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