How much revenue did Riffle Effect make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Riffle Effect sell?

Q: How many copies did Riffle Effect sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Riffle Effect and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Riffle Effect's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.3M

best case 3.6M (The Last of Us™ Part I)

Games like Riffle Effect

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.3M copies

≈ $25.6M–$46.0M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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.

Best case: The Last of Us™ Part I at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $45.1M–$121.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third-Person Shooter (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $60.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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