How much revenue did RPG Maker 2003 make?

$234k–$628k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RPG Maker 2003 sell?

Q: How many copies did RPG Maker 2003 sell?

43k to 69k copies, based on its 871 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–69k; $234k–$628k after Steam's cut $425k–$966k before the cut; from 871 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 RPG Maker 2003 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RPG Maker 2003's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–230k

best case 572k (RPG Maker MV)

Games like RPG Maker 2003

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–230k copies

≈ $618k–$9.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: RPG Maker MV at ≈ 435k–708k copies, ≈ $9.6M–$25.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 213 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 105 to 226.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Game Development (6 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Game Development, priced around $80.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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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