How much revenue did Rigid Force Alpha make?

$23k–$61k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rigid Force Alpha sell?

Q: How many copies did Rigid Force Alpha sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 135 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $23k–$61k after Steam's cut $41k–$93k before the cut; from 135 reviews (Mostly 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 Rigid Force Alpha out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rigid Force Alpha's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–243k

best case 277k (Guns, Gore & Cannoli)

Games like Rigid Force Alpha

The middle of these games

≈ 97k–243k copies

≈ $379k–$634k 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.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Guns, Gore & Cannoli at ≈ 211k–343k copies, ≈ $580k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shoot 'Em Up (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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