How much revenue did Mech Shuffle make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mech Shuffle sell?

Q: How many copies did Mech Shuffle sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 33 reviews (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 Mech Shuffle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mech Shuffle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 822–32k

best case 141k (StarVaders)

Games like Mech Shuffle

The middle of these games

≈ 822–32k copies

≈ $2k–$180k after Steam's cut

from ~80 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.

Best case: StarVaders at ≈ 108k–175k copies, ≈ $741k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Deckbuilding, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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