How much revenue did Recursive Ruin make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recursive Ruin sell?

Q: How many copies did Recursive Ruin sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 326 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before the cut; from 326 reviews (Mostly 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 Recursive Ruin out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Recursive Ruin's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 557k–1.1M

best case 1.1M (Chants of Sennaar)

Games like Recursive Ruin

The middle of these games

≈ 557k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.3M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Chants of Sennaar at ≈ 844k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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