How much revenue did Slime Rancher make?

$29.6M–$79.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slime Rancher sell?

Q: How many copies did Slime Rancher sell?

5.4M to 8.8M copies, based on its 157k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.4M–8.8M; $29.6M–$79.7M after Steam's cut $53.9M–$122.6M before the cut; from 157k 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 Slime Rancher out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Slime Rancher's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.7M–10.7M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Slime Rancher

The middle of these games

≈ 3.7M–10.7M copies

≈ $46.6M–$97.2M after Steam's cut

from ~121k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 4) and Metroidvania (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackAtmospheric
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.2M–31.3M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut $144.2M–$328.1M before the cut	$14.99	559k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Grounded 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.1M–$70.0M after Steam's cut $47.4M–$107.8M before the cut	$39.99	96k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut $44.5M–$101.2M before the cut	$19.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult