How much revenue did River City Melee : Battle Royal Special make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did River City Melee : Battle Royal Special sell?

Q: How many copies did River City Melee : Battle Royal Special sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 131 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before the cut; from 131 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 River City Melee : Battle Royal Special out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including River City Melee : Battle Royal Special's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–9k

best case 74k (Rollerdrome)

Games like River City Melee : Battle Royal Special

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–9k copies

≈ $22k–$66k after Steam's cut

from ~173 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Rollerdrome at ≈ 56k–92k copies, ≈ $466k–$1.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 87 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 677.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Shooter, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Arena Shooter + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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