How much revenue did The Rewind Factory make?

$272–$731 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Rewind Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did The Rewind Factory sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–145k

best case 680k (Neon White)

Games like The Rewind Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–145k copies

≈ $131k–$802k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Neon White at ≈ 518k–842k copies, ≈ $3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 196 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and 3D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + 3D Platformer, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 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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