How much revenue did Risk of Rain Returns make?

$2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Risk of Rain Returns sell?

Q: How many copies did Risk of Rain Returns sell?

712k to 1.2M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 712k–1.2M; $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut; from 29k 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 Risk of Rain Returns out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Risk of Rain Returns's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.4M

best case 13.7M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Risk of Rain Returns

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–3.4M copies

≈ $8.8M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.4M–17.0M copies, ≈ $28.7M–$77.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 63k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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