How much revenue did Retrowave World make?

$30k–$81k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retrowave World sell?

Q: How many copies did Retrowave World sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 440 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $55k–$124k before the cut; from 440 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 Retrowave World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retrowave World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163k–316k

best case 9.9M (Forza Horizon 4)

Games like Retrowave World

The middle of these games

≈ 163k–316k copies

≈ $330k–$490k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Forza Horizon 4 at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (7 of 8) and 1980s (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Driving + Multiplayer + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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