How much revenue did Riverbond make?

$32k–$86k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Riverbond sell?

Q: How many copies did Riverbond sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 161 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $32k–$86k after Steam's cut $58k–$132k before Steam's cut; from 161 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 Riverbond and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Riverbond's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 267k–669k

best case 640k (Minecraft Dungeons)

Games like Riverbond

A typical game among these

≈ 267k–669k copies

≈ $1.4M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

Best case: Minecraft Dungeons at ≈ 487k–792k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 238 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Hack and Slash, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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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