How much revenue did Retrowave make?

$317k–$852k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retrowave sell?

Q: How many copies did Retrowave sell?

385k to 626k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 385k–626k; $317k–$852k after Steam's cut $576k–$1.3M before the cut; from 16k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Retrowave out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retrowave's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 128k–178k

best case 253k (OutDrive)

Games like Retrowave

The middle of these games

≈ 128k–178k copies

≈ $280k–$624k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: OutDrive at ≈ 193k–313k copies, ≈ $158k–$426k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (5 of 8) and 1980s (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 1980s, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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