How much revenue did Killer Ricky make?

$530–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Killer Ricky sell?

Q: How many copies did Killer Ricky sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $530–$1k after Steam's cut $964–$2k before the cut; from 26 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 Killer Ricky out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Killer Ricky's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 329k–696k

best case 1.9M (Hatred)

Games like Killer Ricky

The middle of these games

≈ 329k–696k copies

≈ $2.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Hatred at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Gore + Violent, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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RUINER 2017	Est. copies ≈ 429k–698k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before the cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkAction
12 is Better Than 6 2015	Est. copies ≈ 501k–814k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before the cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	ActionShooter
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