How much revenue did Relic Dudes make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Relic Dudes sell?

Q: How many copies did Relic Dudes sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 330 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before Steam's cut; from 330 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 Relic Dudes and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Relic Dudes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.3M–10.1M

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Relic Dudes

A typical game among these

≈ 6.3M–10.1M copies

≈ $12.1M–$63.9M after Steam's cut

from ~267k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 103k reviews in their first month; the range was 42k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (3 of 3) and Bullet Hell (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Risk of Rain 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut $109.5M–$249.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	353k reviews Very Positive	Third-Person ShooterAction Roguelike