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How many copies did Vox Machinae sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 32k–52k
$265k–$714k after Steam's cut $483k–$1.1M before the cut
from 1k 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 Vox Machinae out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vox Machinae's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–75k
best case 1.2M (War Robots)
Games like Vox Machinae

The middle of these games

≈ 23k–75k copies

≈ $240k–$747k after Steam's cut

from ~853 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: War Robots at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 501 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 571.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Mechs (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Robots + Mechs. The breakout hits carry PvP + Third-Person Shooter + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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).

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