How much revenue did Guns of Icarus Online make?

$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guns of Icarus Online sell?

Q: How many copies did Guns of Icarus Online sell?

927k to 1.5M copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 927k–1.5M; $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before the cut; from 15k 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 Guns of Icarus Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guns of Icarus Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–241k

best case 472k (Steam Link)

Games like Guns of Icarus Online

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–241k copies

≈ $94k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 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: Steam Link at ≈ 360k–584k copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Hand-drawn (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Steam Machine + Software.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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