How many copies did RETNE sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did RETNE make?

RETNE is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is RETNE?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2k–3k; from 50 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 RETNE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RETNE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–162k

best case 270k (Gravitas)

Games like RETNE

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–162k copies

≈ $59k–$575k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Gravitas at ≈ 206k–334k copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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