How much revenue did Reus make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Reus sell?

Q: How many copies did Reus sell?

379k to 616k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 379k–616k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Mostly 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 Reus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 999k–4.5M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Reus

A typical game among these

≈ 999k–4.5M copies

≈ $6.3M–$52.1M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2024, and 1 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 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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