How much revenue did Riverbond make?

$32k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Riverbond sell?

Q: How many copies did Riverbond sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $58k–$131k before the cut; from 160 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 Riverbond out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Riverbond's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–659k

best case 626k (Minecraft Dungeons)

Games like Riverbond

The middle of these games

≈ 266k–659k copies

≈ $1.4M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Minecraft Dungeons at ≈ 477k–775k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.1M 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 239 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Hack and Slash, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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