How much revenue did Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan sell?

Q: How many copies did Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 239 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before the cut; from 239 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 Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–30k

best case 41k (A Shelter Full of Cats)

Games like Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–30k copies

≈ $78k–$172k after Steam's cut

from ~551 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: A Shelter Full of Cats at ≈ 31k–50k copies, ≈ $42k–$114k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 90 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 389.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $5.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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