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How big is MechWarrior Online™ Legends?

Estimated owners
≈ 625k–1.0M
from 13k 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 MechWarrior Online™ Legends out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MechWarrior Online™ Legends's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 710k–1.3M
best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)
Games like MechWarrior Online™ Legends

The middle of these games

≈ 710k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.7M–$11.7M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Robots (3 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: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Robots (3 of 8) and RTS (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2020, and none of them 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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