How much revenue did Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken make?

$273k–$735k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken sell?

Q: How many copies did Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken sell?

199k to 324k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 199k–324k; $273k–$735k after Steam's cut $497k–$1.1M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 488k–1.1M

best case 3.9M (Broforce)

Games like Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

The middle of these games

≈ 488k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.8M–$8.6M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

Best case: Broforce at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (6 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with America + Co-op, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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 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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