How much revenue did Slime Rancher make?

$29.8M–$80.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slime Rancher sell?

Q: How many copies did Slime Rancher sell?

5.4M to 8.8M copies, based on its 158k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.4M–8.8M; $29.8M–$80.2M after Steam's cut $54.2M–$123.4M before Steam's cut; from 158k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Slime Rancher and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Slime Rancher's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.7M–10.8M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Slime Rancher

A typical game among these

≈ 3.7M–10.8M copies

≈ $47.1M–$98.1M after Steam's cut

from ~123k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (3 of 4) and Metroidvania (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackAtmospheric
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.5M–31.6M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut $145.9M–$332.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	566k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Grounded 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.2M–$70.4M after Steam's cut $47.6M–$108.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	96k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult