How much revenue did MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries make?

$3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries sell?

Q: How many copies did MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries sell?

392k to 637k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 392k–637k; $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before the cut; from 16k 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 5: Mercenaries out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–74k

best case 821k (MechWarrior Online™ Legends)

Games like MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–74k copies

≈ $10k–$566k after Steam's cut

from ~183 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: MechWarrior Online™ Legends at ≈ 625k–1.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 109 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mechs (8 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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MechWarrior Online™ Legends 2015	Est. copies ≈ 625k–1.0M 70x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	13k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMechs
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War Robots VR: The Skirmish 2017	Est. copies ≈ 27k–44k 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	788 reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayAction
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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut	$5.99	117 reviews Very Positive	SimulationAction
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