How much revenue did Rocket Rumble make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rocket Rumble sell?

Q: How many copies did Rocket Rumble sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 29 reviews (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 Rocket Rumble and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rocket Rumble's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 303k–1.0M

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like Rocket Rumble

A typical game among these

≈ 303k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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 2D Fighter (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: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 281 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Fighter (3 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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