How much revenue did Rusty's Retirement make?

$706k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rusty's Retirement sell?

Q: How many copies did Rusty's Retirement sell?

367k to 597k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 367k–597k; $706k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut; from 15k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Rusty's Retirement out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rusty's Retirement's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–150k

best case 298k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like Rusty's Retirement

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–150k copies

≈ $46k–$426k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 227k–369k copies, ≈ $623k–$1.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 274 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Automation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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