How much revenue did Detective Ridelle make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Detective Ridelle sell?

Q: How many copies did Detective Ridelle sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 90 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before Steam's cut; from 90 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 Detective Ridelle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Detective Ridelle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 269k–335k

best case 357k (AI: The Somnium Files)

Games like Detective Ridelle

A typical game among these

≈ 269k–335k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: AI: The Somnium Files at ≈ 272k–442k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 29 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 239.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Anime, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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