How much revenue did Russian Reality make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Russian Reality sell?

Q: How many copies did Russian Reality sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 30 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 Russian Reality and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Russian Reality's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.3M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Russian Reality

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.3M copies

≈ $9.1M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~64k 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 Choices Matter (2 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: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–14.0M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (2 of 8) and Episodic (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	87k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
Pizza Tower 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.7M after Steam's cut $18.0M–$41.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great Soundtrack2D Platformer
F1® 22 2022	Est. copies ≈ 634k–1.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	26k reviews Mixed	RacingImmersive Sim
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Life is Strange - Episode 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–14.0M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	176k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichChoices Matter
My Friend Pedro 2019	Est. copies ≈ 821k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionIndie
Life is Strange: Before the Storm 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.2M before Steam's cut	$16.99	38k reviews Very Positive	Story RichChoices Matter