How much revenue did M.A.S.S. Builder make?

$702k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did M.A.S.S. Builder sell?

Q: How many copies did M.A.S.S. Builder sell?

102k to 166k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 102k–166k; $702k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut; from 4k 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 M.A.S.S. Builder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including M.A.S.S. Builder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–39k

best case 86k (Insect Swarm)

Games like M.A.S.S. Builder

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–39k copies

≈ $41k–$154k after Steam's cut

from ~616 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Mechs (4 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: Insect Swarm at ≈ 65k–106k copies, ≈ $126k–$338k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 424 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mechs (4 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Shooter, priced around $7.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 43 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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