How much revenue did RPG in a Box make?

$162k–$436k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RPG in a Box sell?

Q: How many copies did RPG in a Box sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 476 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $162k–$436k after Steam's cut $295k–$671k before the cut; from 476 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 RPG in a Box out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RPG in a Box's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 70k–376k

best case 6.6M (Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition)

Games like RPG in a Box

The middle of these games

≈ 70k–376k copies

≈ $332k–$1.3M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Automobile Sim (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 459 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 432 to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World + Crime + Third Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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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