How much revenue did Returnal™ make?

$4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Returnal™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Returnal™ sell?

273k to 443k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273k–443k; $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.6M before the cut; from 11k 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 Returnal™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Returnal™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–6.1M

best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Returnal™

The middle of these games

≈ 3.8M–6.1M copies

≈ $9.7M–$22.5M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 103k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, 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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Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut $28.0M–$63.6M before the cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Hero Siege 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.8M–$15.7M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.1M before the cut	$7.99	47k reviews Mixed	Action RPGPixel Graphics
Realm of the Mad God Exalt 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	48k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsMMORPG
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Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut	$4.99	265k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
The Binding of Isaac 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut	$4.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
Risk of Rain 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.2M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut $109.0M–$248.0M before the cut	$24.99	352k reviews Very Positive	Third-Person ShooterAction Roguelike
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