How much revenue did Sunset Routes make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunset Routes sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunset Routes sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 570 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 570 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Sunset Routes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunset Routes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 136k–413k

best case 448k (Chrono Ark)

Games like Sunset Routes

A typical game among these

≈ 136k–413k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Chrono Ark at ≈ 342k–555k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (8 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Anime, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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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