How much revenue did Temple of Rust make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Temple of Rust sell?

Q: How many copies did Temple of Rust sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 112 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 112 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 Temple of Rust and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Temple of Rust's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 927k–2.1M

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Temple of Rust

A typical game among these

≈ 927k–2.1M copies

≈ $9.1M–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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