How much revenue did Songs of Rats make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Songs of Rats sell?

Q: How many copies did Songs of Rats sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$22k before the cut; from 51 reviews (Mostly 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 Songs of Rats out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Songs of Rats's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–17k

best case 6.5M (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Games like Songs of Rats

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–17k copies

≈ $3k–$98k after Steam's cut

from ~157 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FTL: Faster Than Light at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 137 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (5 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Space, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Card Battler + Deckbuilding + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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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