How much revenue did Sanitarium Rush make?

$8–$21 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sanitarium Rush sell?

Q: How many copies did Sanitarium Rush sell?

29 to 47 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29–47; $8–$21 after Steam's cut $14–$33 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Sanitarium Rush and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sanitarium Rush's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 61k–172k

best case 194k (Flower)

Games like Sanitarium Rush

A typical game among these

≈ 61k–172k copies

≈ $98k–$426k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Flower at ≈ 148k–240k copies, ≈ $284k–$763k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 291 reviews in their first month; the range was 52 to 930.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (4 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Immersive + Nature, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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