How much revenue did The Ranch of Rivershine make?

$476k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Ranch of Rivershine sell?

Q: How many copies did The Ranch of Rivershine sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $476k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $866k–$2.0M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 The Ranch of Rivershine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Ranch of Rivershine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–351k

best case 3.0M (Farming Simulator 22)

Games like The Ranch of Rivershine

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–351k copies

≈ $488k–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Farming Simulator 22 at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 586 reviews in their first month; the range was 136 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Farming Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 79 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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Farming Simulator 22 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 42x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	93k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Farming Sim
Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos 2023	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $149k–$401k after Steam's cut $271k–$616k before Steam's cut	$49.99	437 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureRPG
STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life 2023	Est. copies ≈ 35k–56k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $381k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $693k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualRPG
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