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How many copies did ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.1M–3.5M
$35.0M–$94.2M after Steam's cut $63.7M–$144.9M before the cut
from 86k 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 ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 210k–309k
best case 1.3M (BATTLETECH)
Games like ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™

The middle of these games

≈ 210k–309k copies

≈ $2.2M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Mechs (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: BATTLETECH at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.8M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Mechs (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Extraction Shooter + Looter Shooter, priced around $35.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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