How much revenue did Rolling Line make?

$434k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rolling Line sell?

Q: How many copies did Rolling Line sell?

79k to 128k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 79k–128k; $434k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $789k–$1.8M before the cut; from 3k 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 Rolling Line out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rolling Line's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 428k–1.1M

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like Rolling Line

The middle of these games

≈ 428k–1.1M copies

≈ $5.7M–$19.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 619 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Trains (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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