How much revenue did Rise of Industry make?

$996k–$2.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rise of Industry sell?

Q: How many copies did Rise of Industry sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $996k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 Rise of Industry out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rise of Industry's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–5.1M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Rise of Industry

The middle of these games

≈ 3.4M–5.1M copies

≈ $32.1M–$77.2M after Steam's cut

from ~112k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.3M–23.2M copies, ≈ $117.6M–$316.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Moddable + City Builder + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
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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