How much revenue did Droid Assault make?

$64k–$173k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Droid Assault sell?

Q: How many copies did Droid Assault sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $64k–$173k after Steam's cut $117k–$266k before the cut; from 371 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 Droid Assault out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Droid Assault's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 136k–329k

best case 658k (12 is Better Than 6)

Games like Droid Assault

The middle of these games

≈ 136k–329k copies

≈ $354k–$880k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: 12 is Better Than 6 at ≈ 501k–814k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 590 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Western, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Western + Hand-drawn + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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