How much revenue did Risk of Rain Returns make?

$2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Risk of Rain Returns sell?

Q: How many copies did Risk of Rain Returns sell?

712k to 1.2M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 712k–1.2M; $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut; from 29k 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 Risk of Rain Returns and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Risk of Rain Returns's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.4M

best case 13.9M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Risk of Rain Returns

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–3.4M copies

≈ $8.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.6M–17.2M copies, ≈ $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 63k reviews in their first month; the range was 21k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Streets of Rogue 2019	Est. copies ≈ 665k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.8M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-liteAction Roguelike
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Risk of Rain (2013) 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	30k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
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