How many copies has Scrap Mechanic sold?

indielist estimates Scrap Mechanic has sold between 5,706,612 and 13,315,428 units (median 9,511,020), derived from its 105,678 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published Scrap Mechanic?

Scrap Mechanic was published by Axolot Games, developed by Axolot Games. See Axolot Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Scrap Mechanic released?

Scrap Mechanic was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Scrap Mechanic have on Steam?

Scrap Mechanic has 105,678 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Scrap Mechanic worth playing?

Steam players rate Scrap Mechanic 92% positive across 105,678 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.

Scrap Mechanic

Jan 19, 2016 Action $19.99

Developer Axolot Games Publisher Axolot Games

Profile updated May 2026

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.

Scrap Mechanic is a 2016 Action game developed by Axolot Games and published by Axolot Games. On Steam it has gathered 105,678 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.7 million to 13.3 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

105,678

Positive

92%

Steam appid

387990

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

2,062

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-22 23:45 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.7M to 13.3M

units (median: 9.5M)

≈ $65.2M to $152.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.7M median 13.3M

+ How is this calculated?

105,678 reviews × NB(90) = 9,511,020 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$20	0
positive_92%	+10
final NB	90

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 Scrap Mechanic at roughly 5.7 million to 13.3 million copies, with a median around 9.5 million, derived from its 105,678 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $108.6M 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

54 observed days · window low $13.39

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.39 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $13.39 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Scrap Mechanic sold?: indielist estimates Scrap Mechanic has sold between 5,706,612 and 13,315,428 units (median 9,511,020), derived from its 105,678 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published Scrap Mechanic?: Scrap Mechanic was published by Axolot Games, developed by Axolot Games. See Axolot Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Scrap Mechanic released?: Scrap Mechanic was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Scrap Mechanic have on Steam?: Scrap Mechanic has 105,678 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Scrap Mechanic worth playing?: Steam players rate Scrap Mechanic 92% positive across 105,678 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.

Players looking for games like Scrap Mechanic can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Voidtrain, Valheim, Raft, Rust, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.