How much revenue did Lord of Rigel make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lord of Rigel sell?

Q: How many copies did Lord of Rigel sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 124 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $31k–$70k before Steam's cut; from 124 reviews (Mixed)

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 Lord of Rigel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lord of Rigel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–447k

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like Lord of Rigel

A typical game among these

≈ 45k–447k copies

≈ $380k–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 581 reviews in their first month; the range was 184 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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 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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Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M 77x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
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