How much revenue did Rise of the Triad make?

$663k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rise of the Triad sell?

Q: How many copies did Rise of the Triad sell?

161k to 261k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 161k–261k; $663k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Rise of the Triad out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rise of the Triad's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 631k–1.3M

best case 7.9M (ULTRAKILL)

Games like Rise of the Triad

The middle of these games

≈ 631k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.9M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: ULTRAKILL at ≈ 6.0M–9.7M copies, ≈ $49.4M–$132.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + Fast-Paced, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Blood + Character Action Game + Spectacle fighter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2020, 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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