How much revenue did Refactor make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Refactor sell?

Q: How many copies did Refactor sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 469 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before Steam's cut; from 469 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 Refactor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Refactor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–185k

best case 677k (Kingdom: New Lands)

Games like Refactor

A typical game among these

≈ 109k–185k copies

≈ $582k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Kingdom: New Lands at ≈ 516k–839k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 262 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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