How much revenue did Roadwarden make?

$386k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Roadwarden sell?

Q: How many copies did Roadwarden sell?

128k to 207k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 128k–207k; $386k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $701k–$1.6M before the cut; from 5k 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 Roadwarden out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Roadwarden's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 202k–363k

best case 689k (Murders on the Yangtze River)

Games like Roadwarden

The middle of these games

≈ 202k–363k copies

≈ $862k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Murders on the Yangtze River at ≈ 525k–853k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 856 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 462 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Detective + Puzzle + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 43 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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