How much revenue did River Towns make?

$26k–$71k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did River Towns sell?

Q: How many copies did River Towns sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 257 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $26k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$109k before Steam's cut; from 257 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 River Towns and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including River Towns's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–16k

best case 86k (Rail Route)

Games like River Towns

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–16k copies

≈ $13k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~181 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Rail Route at ≈ 65k–106k copies, ≈ $449k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Management, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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