How much revenue did RATSHAKER™ make?

$78k–$211k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RATSHAKER™ sell?

Q: How many copies did RATSHAKER™ sell?

95k to 155k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 95k–155k; $78k–$211k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 RATSHAKER™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RATSHAKER™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–5.7M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like RATSHAKER™

A typical game among these

≈ 4.7M–5.7M copies

≈ $24.3M–$49.7M after Steam's cut

from ~147k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M 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 35k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Souls-like + Dark Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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