How much revenue did Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 53 reviews (Mixed)

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 Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 313k–491k

best case 502k (Retrowave)

Games like Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 313k–491k copies

≈ $1.5M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Music (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Retrowave at ≈ 383k–622k copies, ≈ $315k–$846k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 729 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (3 of 8) and 1980s (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 1980s, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 1997 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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POSTAL Redux 2016	Est. copies ≈ 345k–560k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $852k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$8.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpMultiplayer
Figment 2017	Est. copies ≈ 196k–319k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	AdventureIndie
Everhood 2021	Est. copies ≈ 348k–566k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $957k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	14k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackMusic
Retrowave 2022	Est. copies ≈ 383k–622k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $315k–$846k after Steam's cut $572k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$2.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Racing1980s
Melatonin 2022	Est. copies ≈ 203k–330k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $838k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	RhythmIndie
POSTAL 1997	Est. copies ≈ 916k–1.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Very Positive	HorrorVillain Protagonist
Animalistic 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$4.99	65 reviews Very Positive	FPSArena Shooter
GOST of Time 2024	Est. copies ≈ 769–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$4.99	31 reviews Positive	Top-Down ShooterTime Manipulation