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 217 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 Steam's cut; from 217 reviews (Mostly 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 Rescue Party: Live! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rescue Party: Live!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–92k

best case 235k (Rubber Bandits)

Games like Rescue Party: Live!

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–92k copies

≈ $172k–$407k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 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: Rubber Bandits at ≈ 179k–291k copies, ≈ $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (4 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Party, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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