How much revenue did LONE RUIN make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LONE RUIN sell?

Q: How many copies did LONE RUIN sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 198 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before Steam's cut; from 198 reviews (Mixed)

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 LONE RUIN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LONE RUIN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–225k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like LONE RUIN

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–225k copies

≈ $12k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 590 reviews in their first month; the range was 34 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (8 of 8) and Arcade (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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