How much revenue did Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service sell?

Q: How many copies did Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 343 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before the cut; from 343 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 Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–83k

best case 459k (Pathologic 2)

Games like Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–83k copies

≈ $146k–$456k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Pathologic 2 at ≈ 350k–569k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.1M 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 232 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 32 to 551.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Difficult + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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