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?

281k to 457k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 281k–457k; $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–4.9M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–4.9M copies

≈ $11.1M–$34.7M after Steam's cut

from ~65k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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