How much revenue did Railroads & Catacombs make?

$56k–$150k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railroads & Catacombs sell?

Q: How many copies did Railroads & Catacombs sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 410 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $56k–$150k after Steam's cut $102k–$231k before the cut; from 410 reviews (Mostly 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 Railroads & Catacombs out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railroads & Catacombs's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–240k

best case 426k (Across the Obelisk)

Games like Railroads & Catacombs

The middle of these games

≈ 122k–240k copies

≈ $817k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Across the Obelisk at ≈ 325k–527k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8) and Turn-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Fantasy, priced around $20.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 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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