How much revenue did Return make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return sell?

Q: How many copies did Return sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 215 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before the cut; from 215 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 Return out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–291k

best case 1.2M (RoboCop: Rogue City)

Games like Return

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–291k copies

≈ $185k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: RoboCop: Rogue City at ≈ 919k–1.5M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 395 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 182 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Dystopian (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + First-Person, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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