How much revenue did Relic Dudes make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Relic Dudes sell?

Q: How many copies did Relic Dudes sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 330 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before the cut; from 330 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 Relic Dudes out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Relic Dudes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.2M–10.0M

best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Relic Dudes

The middle of these games

≈ 6.2M–10.0M copies

≈ $12.0M–$63.6M after Steam's cut

from ~265k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

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 (3 of 3) and Bullet Hell (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 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
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.6M before the cut	$4.99	118k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Risk of Rain 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.2M 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