How much revenue did RUINER make?

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RUINER sell?

Q: How many copies did RUINER sell?

431k to 700k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 431k–700k; $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before Steam's cut; from 13k 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 RUINER and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RUINER's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–538k

best case 813k (The Ascent)

Games like RUINER

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–538k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: The Ascent at ≈ 619k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Top-Down Shooter + Cyberpunk, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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