How much revenue did Rum & Gun make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rum & Gun sell?

Q: How many copies did Rum & Gun sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 407 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before the cut; from 407 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 Rum & Gun out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rum & Gun's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 440–1.9M

best case 39.4M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Rum & Gun

The middle of these games

≈ 440–1.9M copies

≈ $2k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~421 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.8M copies, ≈ $495.5M–$1332.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 221 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (6 of 8) and Pirates (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: 5 of your 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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