How much revenue did The Rookery make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Rookery sell?

Q: How many copies did The Rookery sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 105 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut; from 105 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 The Rookery and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Rookery's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–83k

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like The Rookery

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–83k copies

≈ $5k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~341 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 977.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Chess (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
When they shipped: Only 3 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 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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