How much revenue did Rusty's Retirement make?

$709k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rusty's Retirement sell?

Q: How many copies did Rusty's Retirement sell?

369k to 600k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 369k–600k; $709k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut; from 15k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Rusty's Retirement and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rusty's Retirement's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–155k

best case 314k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like Rusty's Retirement

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–155k copies

≈ $47k–$428k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 239k–389k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 274 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Automation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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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