How much revenue did The Rookery make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Rookery sell?

Q: How many copies did The Rookery sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 103 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before the cut; from 103 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 The Rookery out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Rookery's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–82k

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like The Rookery

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–82k copies

≈ $5k–$92k after Steam's cut

from ~334 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 979.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Chess (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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