How much revenue did RUINER make?

$2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RUINER sell?

Q: How many copies did RUINER sell?

429k to 698k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 429k–698k; $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before the cut; from 12k 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 RUINER out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RUINER's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 146k–536k

best case 809k (The Ascent)

Games like RUINER

The middle of these games

≈ 146k–536k copies

≈ $1.5M–$3.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: The Ascent at ≈ 617k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Top-Down Shooter + Cyberpunk, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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