How much revenue did Railway Islands - Puzzle make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Railway Islands - Puzzle sell?

Q: How many copies did Railway Islands - Puzzle sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 267 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut; from 267 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 Railway Islands - Puzzle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Railway Islands - Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 295k–468k

best case 1.3M (Unpacking)

Games like Railway Islands - Puzzle

A typical game among these

≈ 295k–468k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Unpacking at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.6M–$15.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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 43 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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