How much revenue did Richman 8 make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Richman 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did Richman 8 sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 237 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut; from 237 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 Richman 8 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Richman 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.4M

best case 1.4M (FPS Chess)

Games like Richman 8

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.4M copies

≈ $10.2M–$10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~38k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FPS Chess at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 975 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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 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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