How much revenue did Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 53 reviews (Mixed)

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 Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 311k–494k

best case 506k (Retrowave)

Games like Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 311k–494k copies

≈ $1.5M–$1.8M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Music (3 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: Retrowave at ≈ 385k–626k copies, ≈ $317k–$852k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 730 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (3 of 8) and 1980s (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 1980s, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 1997 to 2024, and 1 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 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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