How much revenue did Lord of Rigel make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lord of Rigel sell?

Q: How many copies did Lord of Rigel sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 115 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before the cut; from 115 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 Lord of Rigel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lord of Rigel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–447k

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like Lord of Rigel

The middle of these games

≈ 45k–447k copies

≈ $375k–$3.9M 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 582 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 184 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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