How much revenue did Algo Bot make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Algo Bot sell?

Q: How many copies did Algo Bot sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 189 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before the cut; from 189 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 Algo Bot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Algo Bot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–165k

best case 182k (Turing Complete)

Games like Algo Bot

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–165k copies

≈ $105k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~851 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Turing Complete at ≈ 138k–225k copies, ≈ $761k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 194 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 153 to 251.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Programming (8 of 8) and Automation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Logic, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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