How much revenue did Operation: Polygon Storm make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Operation: Polygon Storm sell?

Q: How many copies did Operation: Polygon Storm sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 292 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before the cut; from 292 reviews (Mixed)

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 Operation: Polygon Storm out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Operation: Polygon Storm's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 220–15k

best case 630k (Mechabellum)

Games like Operation: Polygon Storm

The middle of these games

≈ 220–15k copies

≈ $1k–$124k after Steam's cut

from ~34 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mechabellum at ≈ 480k–780k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 11k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Auto Battler (8 of 8) and Action RTS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Auto Battler, priced around $15.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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