How much revenue did Walls of Rust make?

$69–$184 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Walls of Rust sell?

Q: How many copies did Walls of Rust sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 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 Walls of Rust and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Walls of Rust's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–5k

best case 143k (Cobalt Core)

Games like Walls of Rust

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–5k copies

≈ $18k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~106 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: Cobalt Core at ≈ 109k–177k copies, ≈ $600k–$1.6M 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 63 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (7 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Sci-fi + Pixel Graphics + Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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