How much revenue did Rover Mechanic Simulator make?

$55k–$147k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rover Mechanic Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Rover Mechanic Simulator sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 667 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $55k–$147k after Steam's cut $99k–$226k before the cut; from 667 reviews (Mostly 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 Rover Mechanic Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rover Mechanic Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.0M–11.4M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Rover Mechanic Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 8.0M–11.4M copies

≈ $103.0M–$140.2M after Steam's cut

from ~262k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 86k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (6 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Farming Sim + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 1 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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