How much revenue did Railroad Ink Challenge make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railroad Ink Challenge sell?

Q: How many copies did Railroad Ink Challenge sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 101 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 101 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 Railroad Ink Challenge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railroad Ink Challenge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 191–220

best case 3k (Forests, Fields and Fortresses)

Games like Railroad Ink Challenge

The middle of these games

≈ 191–220 copies

≈ $735–$956 after Steam's cut

from ~6 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Forests, Fields and Fortresses at ≈ 2k–3k copies, ≈ $3k–$7k 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 3 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 16.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Solitaire (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Board Game + God Game; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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