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How many copies did Rescue Q sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$142–$385 after Steam's cut $259–$592 before Steam's cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Only 3 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 Rescue Q and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rescue Q's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–111k
best case 935k (Baba Is You)
Games like Rescue Q

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–111k copies

≈ $86k–$783k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Baba Is You at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M 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 197 reviews in their first month; the range was 188 to 392.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Programming + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 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 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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Est. copies
≈ 84k–137k
1.5x vs typical
SteamSpy 100k–200k
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≈ 37k–60k
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Baba Is You
2019
Est. copies
≈ 712k–1.2M
18x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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Overwhelmingly Positive
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$295k–$793k after Steam's cut $537k–$1.2M before Steam's cut
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Free
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Chuck's Challenge 3D 2020
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≈ 12k–20k
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$468k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M before Steam's cut
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Est. copies
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$14.99
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Overwhelmingly Positive
CasualPuzzle

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