How much revenue did Railroads & Catacombs make?

$56k–$152k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railroads & Catacombs sell?

Q: How many copies did Railroads & Catacombs sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 414 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $56k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$233k before Steam's cut; from 414 reviews (Mostly 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 Railroads & Catacombs and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railroads & Catacombs's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–243k

best case 427k (Across the Obelisk)

Games like Railroads & Catacombs

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–243k copies

≈ $819k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Across the Obelisk at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8) and Turn-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Fantasy, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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