How much revenue did Rusty Lake: Roots make?

$421k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rusty Lake: Roots sell?

Q: How many copies did Rusty Lake: Roots sell?

384k to 624k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 384k–624k; $421k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $766k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Rusty Lake: Roots and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rusty Lake: Roots's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–12.5M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Rusty Lake: Roots

A typical game among these

≈ 5.6M–12.5M copies

≈ $47.7M–$74.5M after Steam's cut

from ~168k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Physics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, 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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