How much revenue did Robowars make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Robowars sell?

Q: How many copies did Robowars sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 291 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $33k–$74k before the cut; from 291 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 Robowars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Robowars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–51k

best case 757k (Tribes of Midgard)

Games like Robowars

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–51k copies

≈ $151k–$358k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (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: Tribes of Midgard at ≈ 576k–937k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 620 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Action RPG, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 43 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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