How much revenue did Retro City Rampage™ DX make?

$560k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retro City Rampage™ DX sell?

Q: How many copies did Retro City Rampage™ DX sell?

136k to 221k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 136k–221k; $560k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M 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 Retro City Rampage™ DX out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retro City Rampage™ DX's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.6M

best case 4.0M (Realm of the Mad God Exalt)

Games like Retro City Rampage™ DX

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.6M copies

≈ $4.8M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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 Platformer (3 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: Realm of the Mad God Exalt at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 8) and 3D Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Rogue-like. The breakout hits carry MMORPG + Free to Play + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2001 to 2018, 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 38 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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