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How big is Iron Jaw?

Estimated owners
≈ 2k–3k
from 73 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–228
best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)
Games like Iron Jaw

The middle of these games

≈ 163–228 copies

≈ $251–$629 after Steam's cut

from ~6 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M 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 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 103k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Looter Shooter (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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