How much revenue did Rogue Glitch Ultra make?

$130k–$350k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rogue Glitch Ultra sell?

Q: How many copies did Rogue Glitch Ultra sell?

40k to 64k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–64k; $130k–$350k after Steam's cut $237k–$539k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Rogue Glitch Ultra and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rogue Glitch Ultra's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 510k–2.0M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Rogue Glitch Ultra

A typical game among these

≈ 510k–2.0M copies

≈ $1.5M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut $69.8M–$158.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	184k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike
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