How much revenue did Detective Ridelle make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Detective Ridelle sell?

Q: How many copies did Detective Ridelle sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 90 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before the cut; from 90 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 Detective Ridelle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Detective Ridelle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 267k–332k

best case 355k (AI: The Somnium Files)

Games like Detective Ridelle

The middle of these games

≈ 267k–332k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: AI: The Somnium Files at ≈ 270k–439k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 29 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 240.

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 Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Anime, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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