How much revenue did Rocket Wars make?

$937–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rocket Wars sell?

Q: How many copies did Rocket Wars sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 100 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $937–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 100 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 Rocket Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rocket Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 210k–2.4M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like Rocket Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 210k–2.4M copies

≈ $998k–$14.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (7 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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Party Animals 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut $19.7M–$44.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	79k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerFunny
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