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How many copies did Steel Rain - Dawn of the Machines sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$41–$111 after Steam's cut $75–$170 before the cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 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.

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We left Steel Rain - Dawn of the Machines out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Rain - Dawn of the Machines's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–3.9M
best case 64.7M (War Thunder)
Games like Steel Rain - Dawn of the Machines

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–3.9M copies

≈ $2.8M–$46.0M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 264 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Vehicular Combat (5 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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 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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