How much revenue did RivenWorld: The First Era make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RivenWorld: The First Era sell?

Q: How many copies did RivenWorld: The First Era sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 42 reviews (Mixed)

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 RivenWorld: The First Era and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RivenWorld: The First Era's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 367k–817k

best case 2.3M (Far Cry® Primal)

Games like RivenWorld: The First Era

A typical game among these

≈ 367k–817k copies

≈ $3.7M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Far Cry® Primal at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 2 of the 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 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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