How much revenue did An Engineer and the Great Machine make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did An Engineer and the Great Machine sell?

Q: How many copies did An Engineer and the Great Machine sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 11 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 An Engineer and the Great Machine out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including An Engineer and the Great Machine's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–914k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like An Engineer and the Great Machine

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–914k copies

≈ $36k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~364 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 976k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 6k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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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