How much revenue did Rift of the NecroDancer make?

$859k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rift of the NecroDancer sell?

Q: How many copies did Rift of the NecroDancer sell?

156k to 254k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 156k–254k; $859k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Rift of the NecroDancer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rift of the NecroDancer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464k–3.2M

best case 8.8M (It Takes Two)

Games like Rift of the NecroDancer

A typical game among these

≈ 464k–3.2M copies

≈ $4.1M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~24k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: It Takes Two at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $73.7M–$198.3M 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 7 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rhythm (6 of 8) and Female Protagonist (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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It Takes Two 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.9M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $73.7M–$198.3M after Steam's cut $134.1M–$305.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	270k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
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