How much revenue did Railbound make?

$171k–$459k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railbound sell?

Q: How many copies did Railbound sell?

48k to 78k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 48k–78k; $171k–$459k after Steam's cut $310k–$705k before the cut; from 2k 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 Railbound out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railbound's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–202k

best case 618k (A Little to the Left)

Games like Railbound

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–202k copies

≈ $5k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~365 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 580.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Trains (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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