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Scrap Mechanic is an action-adventure simulation game released in 2016. With over 104,752 Steam reviews, this indie title focuses on creative building and survival. It was available in Early Access before its full release.
Overview
Scrap Mechanic is a 2016 Action game developed by Axolot Games and published by Axolot Games. On Steam it has gathered 104,924 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Axolot Games with publisher Axolot Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.7 million to 13.2 million 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, Scrap Mechanic can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
104,924
Positive
92%
Steam appid
387990
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.05.7M to 13.2M
units (median: 9.4M)
≈ $64.7M to $151.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Scrap Mechanic at roughly 5.7 million to 13.2 million copies, with a median around 9.4 million, derived from its 104,924 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $107.8M 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
90d · low $12.14Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.14 to $19.99, averaging $18.39 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.14 on 2026-03-24.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
BuildingSandboxMultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldPhysicsCraftingBase-BuildingCo-opFirst-PersonAdventureSingleplayerThird PersonFunnySimulationEarly AccessActionIndieModdableOnline Co-Op
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Scrap Mechanic sold?
- indielist estimates Scrap Mechanic has sold between 5,665,896 and 13,220,424 units (median 9,443,160), derived from its 104,924 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Scrap Mechanic?
- Scrap Mechanic was developed by Axolot Games and published by Axolot Games.
- When was Scrap Mechanic released?
- Scrap Mechanic was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Scrap Mechanic have on Steam?
- Scrap Mechanic has 104,924 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Scrap Mechanic sold?
- indielist estimates Scrap Mechanic has sold between 5,665,896 and 13,220,424 units (median 9,443,160), derived from its 104,924 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Scrap Mechanic?
- Scrap Mechanic was developed by Axolot Games and published by Axolot Games.
- When was Scrap Mechanic released?
- Scrap Mechanic was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Scrap Mechanic have on Steam?
- Scrap Mechanic has 104,924 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Scrap Mechanic within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Axolot Games's other releases and Axolot Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Scrap Mechanic 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 Scrap Mechanic page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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