How much revenue did River Towns make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did River Towns sell?

Q: How many copies did River Towns sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 253 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$107k before the cut; from 253 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 Towns out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including River Towns's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–16k

best case 85k (Rail Route)

Games like River Towns

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–16k copies

≈ $13k–$52k after Steam's cut

from ~177 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Rail Route at ≈ 65k–105k copies, ≈ $444k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Management, priced around $25.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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