How much revenue did Rocksmith™ make?

Rocksmith™ is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Rocksmith™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Rocksmith™ sell?

87k to 142k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–142k; from 1k 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 Rocksmith™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rocksmith™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–18k

best case 826k (Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY)

Games like Rocksmith™

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–18k copies

≈ $56k–$186k after Steam's cut

from ~411 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rocksmith® 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY at ≈ 629k–1.0M copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 132 reviews in their first month; the range was 98 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Casual + Colorful; a typical game here doesn't.
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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