How much revenue did Sketchbots make?

$478–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sketchbots sell?

Q: How many copies did Sketchbots sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k

best case 926k (Baba Is You)

Games like Sketchbots

The middle of these games

≈ 2k copies

≈ $4k–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~59 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 705k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M 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 68 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 262.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Programming (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Logic + Automation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2026, and 3 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 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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Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 705k–1.1M 419x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.0M before the cut	$14.99	24k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Electrogical 2026	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut	$7.99	89 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessPuzzle
Code Wizard: Java Edition 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$5.99	41 reviews Positive	EducationProgramming
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $48k–$128k after Steam's cut $87k–$197k before the cut	$17.99	389 reviews Mostly Positive	ProgrammingAutomation
ComPressure 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut	$4.99	67 reviews Very Positive	AutomationProgramming
Infinite Turtles 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut	$9.99	50 reviews Very Positive	ProgrammingLogic
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