How much revenue did Mothership Forever make?

$872–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mothership Forever sell?

Q: How many copies did Mothership Forever sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $872–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 16 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 Mothership Forever out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mothership Forever's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 500k–1.1M

best case 2.1M (HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition)

Games like Mothership Forever

The middle of these games

≈ 500k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.0M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (7 of 8) and Twin Stick Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 1997 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 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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