How many copies did The Riese Project - Prologue sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 197 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Riese Project - Prologue make?

The Riese Project - Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Riese Project - Prologue?

Estimated owners: ≈ 5k–8k; from 197 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Riese Project - Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Riese Project - Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.0M–7.5M

best case 39.4M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like The Riese Project - Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 6.0M–7.5M copies

≈ $115.8M–$169.6M after Steam's cut

from ~189k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.8M copies, ≈ $495.5M–$1332.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 83k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 36k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2026, and 3 of your 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 38 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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