How much revenue did River Raid 3D make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did River Raid 3D sell?

Q: How many copies did River Raid 3D sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 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 River Raid 3D and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including River Raid 3D's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–10k

best case 599k (Century: Age of Ashes)

Games like River Raid 3D

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–10k copies

≈ $8k–$34k after Steam's cut

from ~214 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Century: Age of Ashes at ≈ 456k–741k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 9k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Spectacle fighter (6 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dragons + Team-Based. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Multiplayer + Team-Based; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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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