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For players searching for a mech indie game, Mech Engineer sits in the 2024 indie catalog from developer kiberkreker and publisher MicroProse Software. Its Steam page lists 891 reviews with a mixed rating and 0% positive shown, plus an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Mech Engineer is a 2024 Indie game developed by KiberKreker and published by MicroProse Software. On Steam it has gathered 911 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer KiberKreker with publisher MicroProse Software is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 27,000 to 64,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Mech Engineer can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
911
Positive
74%
Steam appid
1428520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.027K to 64K
units (median: 46K)
≈ $234K to $546K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_74% | 0 |
| final NB | 50 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Mech Engineer at roughly 27,000 to 64,000 copies, with a median around 46,000, derived from its 911 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $390K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
8 observed days · window low $8.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-07-19.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Mech Engineer sold?
- indielist estimates Mech Engineer has sold between 27,330 and 63,770 units (median 45,550), derived from its 911 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Mech Engineer?
- Mech Engineer was developed by KiberKreker and published by MicroProse Software.
- Who published Mech Engineer?
- Mech Engineer was published by MicroProse Software, developed by KiberKreker. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Mech Engineer released?
- Mech Engineer was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Mech Engineer have on Steam?
- Mech Engineer has 911 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
- Is Mech Engineer worth playing?
- Steam players rate Mech Engineer 74% positive across 911 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Mech Engineer can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, KiberKreker's other releases and MicroProse Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Mech Engineer sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Mech Engineer page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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