How much revenue did ARC SEED make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ARC SEED sell?

Q: How many copies did ARC SEED sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 99 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before the cut; from 99 reviews (Mostly 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 ARC SEED out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ARC SEED's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196k–449k

best case 630k (Mechabellum)

Games like ARC SEED

The middle of these games

≈ 196k–449k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Mechs (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

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 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mechs (4 of 8) and Robots (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Auto Battler, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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