How much revenue did Rat Prison make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rat Prison sell?

Q: How many copies did Rat Prison sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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 Rat Prison and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rat Prison's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 499–45k

best case 2.6M (Rain World)

Games like Rat Prison

A typical game among these

≈ 499–45k copies

≈ $1k–$291k after Steam's cut

from ~107 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rain World at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 30 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 407.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Exploration, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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