How much revenue did Bad Rats Show make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Rats Show sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Rats Show sell?

40k to 65k copies, based on its 963 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–65k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before Steam's cut; from 963 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 Bad Rats Show and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Rats Show's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–6.5M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Bad Rats Show

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–6.5M copies

≈ $33.7M–$56.0M after Steam's cut

from ~73k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M 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 31k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Action Roguelike + Rogue-like + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2021, 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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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 2014	Est. copies ≈ 25.8M–41.9M 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $106.2M–$285.5M after Steam's cut $193.0M–$439.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	460k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
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Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 67.0M–108.9M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut $334.7M–$761.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op
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