How much revenue did Rip & Tear make?

$334–$898 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rip & Tear sell?

Q: How many copies did Rip & Tear sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $334–$898 after Steam's cut $608–$1k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (Mostly 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 Rip & Tear and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rip & Tear's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–53k

best case 635k (Primal Carnage: Extinction)

Games like Rip & Tear

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–53k copies

≈ $56k–$926k after Steam's cut

from ~574 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 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: Primal Carnage: Extinction at ≈ 484k–786k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 303 reviews in their first month; the range was 200 to 515.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (4 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + FPS, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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