How much revenue did WAR RATS: The Rat em Up make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WAR RATS: The Rat em Up sell?

Q: How many copies did WAR RATS: The Rat em Up sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 399 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut; from 399 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 WAR RATS: The Rat em Up and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WAR RATS: The Rat em Up's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 306k–785k

best case 1.1M (My Friend Pedro)

Games like WAR RATS: The Rat em Up

A typical game among these

≈ 306k–785k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: My Friend Pedro at ≈ 821k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and Side Scroller (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Parkour, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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