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How many copies did Crazy Machines 3 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 420k–682k
$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut
from 10k 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 Crazy Machines 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crazy Machines 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 879k–1.2M
best case 727k (Hardspace: Shipbreaker)
Games like Crazy Machines 3

The middle of these games

≈ 879k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.7M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hardspace: Shipbreaker at ≈ 554k–900k copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 742 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 394 to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Space + Sci-fi, priced around $35.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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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