How much revenue did RAYZE make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RAYZE sell?

Q: How many copies did RAYZE sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 207 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$70k before the cut; from 207 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 RAYZE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RAYZE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 435k–1.7M

best case 2.4M (Sonic Adventure 2)

Games like RAYZE

The middle of these games

≈ 435k–1.7M copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Sonic Adventure 2 at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Fast-Paced (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Platformer, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 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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