How much revenue did Steel Rats™ make?

$118k–$316k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Steel Rats™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Steel Rats™ sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $118k–$316k after Steam's cut $214k–$487k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Steel Rats™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steel Rats™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–268k

best case 2.0M (SpeedRunners)

Games like Steel Rats™

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–268k copies

≈ $109k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SpeedRunners at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Racing (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Competitive, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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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