How much revenue did shapez 2 - Factory make?

$3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did shapez 2 - Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did shapez 2 - Factory sell?

374k to 608k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 374k–608k; $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before the cut; from 15k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 shapez 2 - Factory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including shapez 2 - Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–19k

best case 31k (Microtopia)

Games like shapez 2 - Factory

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–19k copies

≈ $20k–$177k after Steam's cut

from ~300 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Microtopia at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $132k–$354k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 193 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 737.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (7 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Automation, priced around $20.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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