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How many copies did Rainbow Cotton sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 546–887
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut
from 22 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Rainbow Cotton out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rainbow Cotton's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22.1M–100.3M
best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Rainbow Cotton

The middle of these games

≈ 22.1M–100.3M copies

≈ $93.3M–$245.7M after Steam's cut

from ~788k 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.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Shooter (5 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 to 2021, 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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