How much revenue did Ruff City make?

$183–$490 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ruff City sell?

Q: How many copies did Ruff City sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $183–$490 after Steam's cut $332–$754 before Steam's cut; from 27 reviews (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 Ruff City and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ruff City's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 460k–642k

best case 941k (Sifu)

Games like Ruff City

A typical game among these

≈ 460k–642k copies

≈ $4.7M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (3 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: Sifu at ≈ 717k–1.2M copies, ≈ $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (3 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Beat 'em up, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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