How much revenue did ΔV: Rings of Saturn make?

$235k–$632k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ΔV: Rings of Saturn sell?

Q: How many copies did ΔV: Rings of Saturn sell?

86k to 139k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–139k; $235k–$632k after Steam's cut $427k–$972k before the cut; from 3k 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 ΔV: Rings of Saturn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ΔV: Rings of Saturn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 727k–1.5M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like ΔV: Rings of Saturn

The middle of these games

≈ 727k–1.5M copies

≈ $7.6M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M 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 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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