How much revenue did Steel Circus make?

Steel Circus is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Steel Circus sell?

Q: How many copies did Steel Circus sell?

56k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–90k; from 2k 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 Steel Circus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Circus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 719k–1.1M

best case 1.2M (eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE)

Games like Steel Circus

The middle of these games

≈ 719k–1.1M copies

from ~25k 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: eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE at ≈ 945k–1.5M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (8 of 8) and Football (Soccer) (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Football (Soccer).
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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Football Manager 2021 2020	Est. copies ≈ 591k–961k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Football Manager 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
eFootball PES 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	26k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Football Manager 2019 2018	Est. copies ≈ 379k–616k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2022 2021	Est. copies ≈ 533k–867k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	22k reviews Very Positive	SportsManagement
ACE - Arena: Cyber Evolution 2014	Est. copies ≈ 59k–96k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Mixed	Early AccessFree to Play
eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE 2020	Est. copies ≈ 945k–1.5M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	38k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Judgeball: Lethal Arena - Early Access 2023	Est. copies ≈ 248–403 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut	$14.99	10 reviews Positive	Early AccessCasual