How much revenue did Ruvato: Original Complex make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ruvato: Original Complex sell?

Q: How many copies did Ruvato: Original Complex sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 50 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 Ruvato: Original Complex out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ruvato: Original Complex's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.8M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Ruvato: Original Complex

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–2.8M copies

≈ $10.8M–$27.9M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $38.2M–$102.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2023, 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 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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