How much revenue did Rain City make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rain City sell?

Q: How many copies did Rain City sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut; from 148 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 371k–584k

best case 934k (Gorogoa)

Games like Rain City

The middle of these games

≈ 371k–584k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Gorogoa at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Investigation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Hand-drawn, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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 79 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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