How much revenue did BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 sell?

Q: How many copies did BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 96 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 96 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 BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 769k–1.2M

best case 7.8M (The Isle)

Games like BORIS THE ROCKET 🚀

A typical game among these

≈ 769k–1.2M copies

≈ $6.9M–$15.4M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: The Isle at ≈ 5.9M–9.6M copies, ≈ $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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