How much revenue did Rabi-Ribi make?

$2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rabi-Ribi sell?

Q: How many copies did Rabi-Ribi sell?

510k to 829k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 510k–829k; $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.4M before the cut; from 12k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Rabi-Ribi out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rabi-Ribi's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–194k

best case 565k (Touhou Luna Nights)

Games like Rabi-Ribi

The middle of these games

≈ 53k–194k copies

≈ $195k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Touhou Luna Nights at ≈ 430k–699k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 181 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (5 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Side Scroller, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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