How much revenue did Rip & Tear make?

$334–$898 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rip & Tear sell?

Q: How many copies did Rip & Tear sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $334–$898 after Steam's cut $608–$1k before the cut; from 10 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 Rip & Tear out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rip & Tear's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–33k

best case 634k (Primal Carnage: Extinction)

Games like Rip & Tear

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–33k copies

≈ $54k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~537 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 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: Primal Carnage: Extinction at ≈ 483k–785k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M 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 304 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 200 to 517.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (4 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + FPS, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Dinosaurs + Character Customization + Class-Based; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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