How much revenue did Rogue Legacy make?

$4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rogue Legacy sell?

Q: How many copies did Rogue Legacy sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before Steam's cut; from 19k 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 Rogue Legacy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rogue Legacy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 113k–668k

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Rogue Legacy

A typical game among these

≈ 113k–668k copies

≈ $672k–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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