How much revenue did Red Dead Online make?

$9.5M–$25.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Dead Online sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Dead Online sell?

1.7M to 2.8M copies, based on its 69k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.8M; $9.5M–$25.4M after Steam's cut $17.2M–$39.1M before the cut; from 69k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Red Dead Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Dead Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.6M–24.9M

best case 34.6M (Red Dead Redemption 2)

Games like Red Dead Online

The middle of these games

≈ 12.6M–24.9M copies

≈ $85.3M–$283.5M after Steam's cut

from ~223k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Red Dead Redemption 2 at ≈ 26.4M–42.9M copies, ≈ $435.5M–$1170.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Western (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 2 of your 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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