How much revenue did RedEx make?

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

How many copies did RedEx sell?

Q: How many copies did RedEx sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 123 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 123 reviews (Mostly 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 RedEx and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RedEx's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–266k

best case 493k (Rogue Legacy 2)

Games like RedEx

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–266k copies

≈ $209k–$597k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rogue Legacy 2 at ≈ 376k–611k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 731 reviews in their first month; the range was 243 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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