How much revenue did KeeperRL make?

$246k–$663k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did KeeperRL sell?

Q: How many copies did KeeperRL sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $246k–$663k after Steam's cut $448k–$1.0M before the cut; from 2k 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 KeeperRL out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including KeeperRL's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–5.5M

best case 29.6M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like KeeperRL

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–5.5M copies

≈ $4k–$38.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Base-Building (2 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.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 79 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 43k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (2 of 8) and Exploration (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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