How much revenue did RPG Maker 2003 make?

$234k–$630k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RPG Maker 2003 sell?

Q: How many copies did RPG Maker 2003 sell?

43k to 69k copies, based on its 873 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–69k; $234k–$630k after Steam's cut $426k–$969k before Steam's cut; from 873 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 RPG Maker 2003 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RPG Maker 2003's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–231k

best case 574k (RPG Maker MV)

Games like RPG Maker 2003

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–231k copies

≈ $487k–$9.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: RPG Maker MV at ≈ 437k–711k copies, ≈ $9.6M–$25.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 212 reviews in their first month; the range was 105 to 226.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Game Development (6 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Game Development, priced around $80.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2022, and none of them 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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