How much revenue did ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead make?

$122–$326 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead 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; $122–$326 after Steam's cut $221–$502 before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (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 ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–186k

best case 898k (A Plague Tale: Requiem)

Games like ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 76k–186k copies

≈ $919k–$5.8M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Plague Tale: Requiem at ≈ 684k–1.1M copies, ≈ $9.4M–$25.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 446 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Exploration, priced around $50.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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