How much revenue did Rusty Heights make?

$285–$767 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rusty Heights sell?

Q: How many copies did Rusty Heights sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $285–$767 after Steam's cut $519–$1k before Steam's cut; from 14 reviews (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 Rusty Heights and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rusty Heights's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–16k

best case 35k (JellyCar Worlds)

Games like Rusty Heights

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–16k copies

≈ $11k–$45k after Steam's cut

from ~353 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: JellyCar Worlds at ≈ 27k–44k copies, ≈ $59k–$159k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 168 reviews in their first month; the range was 63 to 192.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + 2D Platformer, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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 38 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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