How much revenue did Ruff City make?

$183–$490 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ruff City sell?

Q: How many copies did Ruff City sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $183–$490 after Steam's cut $332–$754 before the cut; from 27 reviews (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 Ruff City out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ruff City's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 455k–633k

best case 929k (Sifu)

Games like Ruff City

The middle of these games

≈ 455k–633k copies

≈ $4.7M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (3 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: Sifu at ≈ 708k–1.2M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$20.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (3 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Beat 'em up, priced around $40.
The era: Only 2 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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