How much revenue did Rollerdrome make?

$467k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rollerdrome sell?

Q: How many copies did Rollerdrome sell?

57k to 92k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–92k; $467k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Rollerdrome and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rollerdrome's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.9M

best case 9.2M (theHunter: Call of the Wild™)

Games like Rollerdrome

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–2.9M copies

≈ $9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 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: theHunter: Call of the Wild™ at ≈ 7.0M–11.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Open World.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, and none of them 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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