How much revenue did Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition make?

$1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition sell?

282k to 459k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 282k–459k; $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–4.9M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 2.5M–4.9M copies

≈ $16.8M–$36.2M after Steam's cut

from ~73k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 24 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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