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How many copies did McDROID sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–20k
$33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$137k before the cut
from 215 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left McDROID out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including McDROID's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196–684
best case 22k (World Crafter TD)
Games like McDROID

The middle of these games

≈ 196–684 copies

≈ $433–$712 after Steam's cut

from ~15 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: World Crafter TD at ≈ 17k–27k copies, ≈ $68k–$184k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 177 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 Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Base-Building + Tower Defense, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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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