How much revenue did Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye sell?

Q: How many copies did Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before Steam's cut; from 53 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 Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–57k

best case 16.5M (Portal)

Games like Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–57k copies

≈ $76k–$692k after Steam's cut

from ~644 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal at ≈ 12.6M–20.5M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M 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 151 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 479.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Puzzle-Platformer + 3D Platformer + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 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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