How much revenue did Rift Riff make?

$35k–$94k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rift Riff sell?

Q: How many copies did Rift Riff sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 394 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $35k–$94k after Steam's cut $63k–$144k before Steam's cut; from 394 reviews (Very 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 Rift Riff and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rift Riff's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 46k–67k

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Rift Riff

A typical game among these

≈ 46k–67k copies

≈ $279k–$589k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.9M 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 398 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (8 of 8) and RTS (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Colony Sim + Zombies + Survival; 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 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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