How much revenue did Contraption Maker make?

$263k–$707k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Contraption Maker sell?

Q: How many copies did Contraption Maker sell?

74k to 120k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74k–120k; $263k–$707k after Steam's cut $478k–$1.1M before the cut; from 1k 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 Contraption Maker out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Contraption Maker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 660k–1.9M

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Contraption Maker

The middle of these games

≈ 660k–1.9M copies

≈ $3.3M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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 Comedy (3 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: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (3 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2020, 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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BattleBlock Theater® 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before the cut	$14.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-op Platformer
Gunpoint 2013	Est. copies ≈ 842k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before the cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthIndie
Door Kickers: Action Squad 2018	Est. copies ≈ 322k–523k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.1M before the cut	$13.99	11k reviews Very Positive	2D PlatformerPixel Graphics
DDNet 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	46k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
Bridge Constructor Portal 2017	Est. copies ≈ 258k–419k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $709k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Simulation
Door Kickers 2014	Est. copies ≈ 563k–915k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before the cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	TacticalStrategy
Baba Is You 2019	Est. copies ≈ 705k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.0M before the cut	$14.99	24k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleIndie
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.6M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$37.9M before the cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty