How much revenue did Mechajammer make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mechajammer sell?

Q: How many copies did Mechajammer sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 240 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before the cut; from 240 reviews (Mixed)

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 Mechajammer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mechajammer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–6.1M

best case 6.0M (XCOM® 2)

Games like Mechajammer

The middle of these games

≈ 4.0M–6.1M copies

≈ $27.0M–$50.9M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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.

Best case: XCOM® 2 at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $25.0M–$67.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (5 of 8) and Space (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Isometric + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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