How much revenue did Red Tape make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Tape sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Tape sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 288 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $21k–$49k before Steam's cut; from 288 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 Red Tape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Tape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–47k

best case 1.6M (Sally Face - Episode One)

Games like Red Tape

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–47k copies

≈ $50k–$134k after Steam's cut

from ~697 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 215 reviews in their first month; the range was 125 to 837.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Indie + Adventure + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 61 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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