How much revenue did River Town Factory make?

$138k–$371k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did River Town Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did River Town Factory sell?

34k to 54k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–54k; $138k–$371k after Steam's cut $251k–$571k before the cut; from 1k 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 River Town Factory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including River Town Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 482k–1.0M

best case 7.6M (Factorio)

Games like River Town Factory

The middle of these games

≈ 482k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.2M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Factorio at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $55.8M–$150.2M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 809 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (5 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Resource Management + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 36 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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