How much revenue did Red Tape make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Tape sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Tape sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 289 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $21k–$49k before the cut; from 289 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 Red Tape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Tape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–47k

best case 1.5M (Sally Face - Episode One)

Games like Red Tape

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–47k copies

≈ $49k–$131k after Steam's cut

from ~680 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 216 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 125 to 837.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Indie + Adventure + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 61 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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