How much revenue did Rusty Lake: Roots make?

$416k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rusty Lake: Roots sell?

Q: How many copies did Rusty Lake: Roots sell?

379k to 615k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 379k–615k; $416k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $756k–$1.7M before the cut; from 9k 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 Rusty Lake: Roots out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rusty Lake: Roots's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–12.5M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Rusty Lake: Roots

The middle of these games

≈ 5.5M–12.5M copies

≈ $47.5M–$74.1M after Steam's cut

from ~166k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Physics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 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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