How much revenue did Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan make?

$33k–$89k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan sell?

Q: How many copies did Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 242 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before Steam's cut; from 242 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 Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–30k

best case 41k (A Shelter Full of Cats)

Games like Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

A typical game among these

≈ 14k–30k copies

≈ $79k–$173k after Steam's cut

from ~564 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: A Shelter Full of Cats at ≈ 31k–51k copies, ≈ $43k–$115k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 90 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 388.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Hidden Object, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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