How much revenue did Rescue Party: Live! make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rescue Party: Live! sell?

Q: How many copies did Rescue Party: Live! sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 216 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before the cut; from 216 reviews (Mostly 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 Rescue Party: Live! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rescue Party: Live!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–91k

best case 234k (Rubber Bandits)

Games like Rescue Party: Live!

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–91k copies

≈ $171k–$405k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Rubber Bandits at ≈ 178k–290k copies, ≈ $490k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 185 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 83 to 281.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (4 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Party, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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