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How many copies did Gods Against Machines sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before the cut
from 112 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Gods Against Machines out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gods Against Machines's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–16.9M
best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)
Games like Gods Against Machines

The middle of these games

≈ 9.7M–16.9M copies

≈ $76.7M–$130.9M after Steam's cut

from ~330k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 7 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 129k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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