How much revenue did Reus make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Reus sell?

Q: How many copies did Reus sell?

378k to 615k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 378k–615k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut; from 6k 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 Reus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 996k–4.5M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Reus

The middle of these games

≈ 996k–4.5M copies

≈ $6.3M–$52.0M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (8 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2024, and 1 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 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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