How much revenue did RPG Architect make?

$65k–$176k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RPG Architect sell?

Q: How many copies did RPG Architect sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 181 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $65k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$271k before Steam's cut; from 181 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 RPG Architect and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RPG Architect's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90k–235k

best case 574k (RPG Maker MV)

Games like RPG Architect

A typical game among these

≈ 90k–235k copies

≈ $1.2M–$10.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: RPG Maker MV at ≈ 437k–711k copies, ≈ $9.6M–$25.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Game Development (8 of 8) and Design & Illustration (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Game Development, priced around $80.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. 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 that falls with release age, from about 43 for the most recent game here to about 79 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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