How much revenue did The Auto Sort Is Broken make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Auto Sort Is Broken sell?

Q: How many copies did The Auto Sort Is Broken sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 89 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before the cut; from 89 reviews (Mostly 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 The Auto Sort Is Broken out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Auto Sort Is Broken's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 301–948

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like The Auto Sort Is Broken

The middle of these games

≈ 301–948 copies

≈ $421–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~18 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M 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 3 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 8.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Dark Humor (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry First-Person + Female Protagonist + Puzzle-Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, and 2 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.5M–20.4M 11339x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.5M before the cut	$9.99	198k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 26608x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Puyo! Push Brain 2025	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $47–$127 after Steam's cut $86–$195 before the cut	$0.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	CasualRPG
Beyond a Total Loss 2019	Est. copies ≈ 806–1k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut	$9.99	28 reviews Positive	Dark HumorViolent
The Castle 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut	$5.99	41 reviews Positive	Point & ClickIndie
Au-Delà 2022	Est. copies ≈ 471–766 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $646–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$4.99	19 reviews Positive	HorrorExploration
Under The Warehouse 2022	Est. copies ≈ 397–645 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $654–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$5.99	16 reviews Positive	AdventurePuzzle
Frisson DT 2025	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $90–$237 after Steam's cut $163–$364 before the cut	$13.00	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Early AccessAction