How much revenue did Rust Rails make?

$61–$164 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rust Rails sell?

Q: How many copies did Rust Rails sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $61–$164 after Steam's cut $111–$253 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Rust Rails and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rust Rails's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–11k

best case 229k (We Need To Go Deeper)

Games like Rust Rails

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–11k copies

≈ $18k–$48k after Steam's cut

from ~249 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: We Need To Go Deeper at ≈ 174k–283k copies, ≈ $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 124 reviews in their first month; the range was 50 to 191.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (4 of 8) and 2D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Lovecraftian, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + 2D + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 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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