How much revenue did Rough Justice: '84 make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rough Justice: '84 sell?

Q: How many copies did Rough Justice: '84 sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 109 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before Steam's cut; from 109 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 Rough Justice: '84 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rough Justice: '84's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–191k

best case 233k (Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll)

Games like Rough Justice: '84

A typical game among these

≈ 98k–191k copies

≈ $592k–$1.0M 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.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (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: Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll at ≈ 177k–288k copies, ≈ $487k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 3k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (4 of 8) and Investigation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Anime, priced around $10.
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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