Opus Magnum

View on Steam

Opus Magnum

Short description

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Developer
Zachtronics
Publisher
Zachtronics
Release
Thu, Dec 07, 2017
Price
$19.99
Reviews
5,883
Positive
97%
Followers
34,666
Owners (estimated)
200K – 500K
Concurrent players
139
Genres
Indie, Simulation
Features
Steam Workshop, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor
Tags
Puzzle Programming Automation Indie Simulation Logic Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Steampunk Building Difficult Sandbox 2D Hex Grid Casual
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$4.9msomewhere between $3.7m and $8.8m · roughly 200K–471K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $18.69, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 7% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

Waiting for Opus Magnum to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.

Watch this game Free account, no card. Already have one?

History

12 data points since Aug 5, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$4.9m → ~$4.9m
Reviews 5,864 → 5,883
Followers 34,601 → 34,666
Concurrent players 139 → 139
Price $19.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 97.2% → 97.2%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 231 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2017 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $6.80 on Feb 3, 2021.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Opus Magnum is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Puzzle + Programming + Automation

Combinations under 15 games are left out to reduce the influence of small samples. The games below share those tags and are free to browse.

Unlock every combination See the radar first →

Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Opus Magnum. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
The Signal State The Signal State Reckoner Industries first game 6 same tags $19.99
$5.99
70%
best price ever
639 87% Thu, Sep 23, 2021 $514k
$357k – $893k
SHENZHEN I/O SHENZHEN I/O Zachtronics 14 titles 5 − Indie + Difficult $14.99 3,720 95% Thu, Nov 17, 2016 $2.8m
$2.8m – $4.2m
Retro Gadgets Retro Gadgets Studio Evil 7 titles +1 5 − Indie + Early Access $19.99 479 89% Wed, Nov 30, 2022 $422k
$391k – $750k
Word Factori Word Factori Star Garden Games first game 5 − Indie + Management $5.99 468 84% Thu, Aug 03, 2023 $117k
$52k – $1.1m
[the Sequence] [the Sequence] [OneManBand] 3 titles 5 − Simulation + Minimalist $4.99 152 89% Wed, Mar 30, 2016 $22k
$10k – $39k

There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.

See the full neighbourhood Or start from the radar →