How much revenue did Retool make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Retool sell?

Q: How many copies did Retool sell?

499 to 811 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 499–811; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 12 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 Retool and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retool's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–34k

best case 1.1M (Gunpoint)

Games like Retool

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–34k copies

≈ $5k–$135k after Steam's cut

from ~156 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Gunpoint at ≈ 843k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 26 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 45.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Stealth (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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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