How much revenue did Ruins Seeker make?

$100k–$270k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ruins Seeker sell?

Q: How many copies did Ruins Seeker sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 737 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $100k–$270k after Steam's cut $183k–$416k before the cut; from 737 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Ruins Seeker out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ruins Seeker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–5.3M

best case 9.8M (NARAKA: BLADEPOINT)

Games like Ruins Seeker

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–5.3M copies

≈ $10.4M–$41.1M after Steam's cut

from ~90k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 39k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (5 of 8) and Anime (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Martial Arts.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 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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