How much revenue did Bot Wars make?

$75k–$201k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bot Wars sell?

Q: How many copies did Bot Wars sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 730 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $75k–$201k after Steam's cut $136k–$309k before the cut; from 730 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 Bot Wars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bot Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.0M–20.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Bot Wars

The middle of these games

≈ 11.0M–20.5M copies

≈ $142.2M–$204.0M after Steam's cut

from ~378k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 200k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 182k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Battle Royale + PvP + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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