How much revenue did Retro City Rampage™ DX make?

$560k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retro City Rampage™ DX sell?

Q: How many copies did Retro City Rampage™ DX sell?

136k to 221k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 136k–221k; $560k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Retro City Rampage™ DX and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retro City Rampage™ DX's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.6M

best case 4.0M (Realm of the Mad God Exalt)

Games like Retro City Rampage™ DX

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.6M copies

≈ $4.8M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Platformer (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Realm of the Mad God Exalt at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (3 of 8) and 3D Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Rogue-like. The breakout hits carry MMORPG + Free to Play + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2001 to 2018, 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 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 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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Montaro 2016	Est. copies ≈ 506k–823k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $138k–$371k after Steam's cut $251k–$570k before Steam's cut	$0.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MemesCute
Realm of the Mad God Exalt 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	48k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsMMORPG
Refunct 2015	Est. copies ≈ 852k–1.4M SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $701k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$2.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Parkour3D Platformer
Sonic Adventure DX 2011	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.8M before Steam's cut	$7.99	19k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerGreat Soundtrack
Gothic 1 2001	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
VVVVVV 2010	Est. copies ≈ 667k–1.1M too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsPrecision Platformer
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	20k reviews Very Positive	FPS1980s
CrossCode 2018	Est. copies ≈ 562k–914k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGPixel Graphics