How much revenue did Realm of Ink make?

$959k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Realm of Ink sell?

Q: How many copies did Realm of Ink sell?

140k to 227k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 140k–227k; $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before the cut; from 6k 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 Realm of Ink out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Realm of Ink's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–8.6M

best case 29.6M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like Realm of Ink

The middle of these games

≈ 7.6M–8.6M copies

≈ $70.5M–$103.0M after Steam's cut

from ~234k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Survival (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.7M copies, ≈ $93.0M–$250.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Multiplayer + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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