How much revenue did Thunder Ronin make?

$653–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thunder Ronin sell?

Q: How many copies did Thunder Ronin sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $653–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 32 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–137k

best case 13.5M (Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition)

Games like Thunder Ronin

A typical game among these

≈ 97k–137k copies

≈ $1.4M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition at ≈ 10.3M–16.7M copies, ≈ $169.4M–$455.5M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Ninja (7 of 8) and Hack and Slash (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Action RPG + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 79 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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