How much revenue did BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 sell?

Q: How many copies did BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 97 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 97 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 BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 768k–1.2M

best case 7.6M (The Isle)

Games like BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀

The middle of these games

≈ 768k–1.2M copies

≈ $6.8M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: The Isle at ≈ 5.8M–9.5M copies, ≈ $32.0M–$86.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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