How many copies did Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 make?

Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 9k–15k; from 371 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 Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k

best case 6k (This Way Madness Lies)

Games like Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $4k–$10k after Steam's cut

from ~75 reviews

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

None of the 6 similar games are hits.

Best case: This Way Madness Lies at ≈ 5k–8k copies, ≈ $13k–$35k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 64.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (6 of 6) and Turn-Based Combat (6 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Comedy, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 1 of the 6 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 36 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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