How much revenue did LONE RUIN make?

$20k–$55k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LONE RUIN sell?

Q: How many copies did LONE RUIN sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 199 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before the cut; from 199 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 LONE RUIN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LONE RUIN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–224k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like LONE RUIN

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–224k copies

≈ $12k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 590 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 34 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arena Shooter (8 of 8) and Arcade (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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