How much revenue did The Riftbreaker make?

$5.0M–$13.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Riftbreaker sell?

Q: How many copies did The Riftbreaker sell?

611k to 993k copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 611k–993k; $5.0M–$13.6M after Steam's cut $9.2M–$20.9M before the cut; from 25k 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 The Riftbreaker out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Riftbreaker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 831k–1.4M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like The Riftbreaker

The middle of these games

≈ 831k–1.4M copies

≈ $5.0M–$11.0M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M 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 47k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (6 of 8) and Resource Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Survival, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Survival + Crafting; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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