How much revenue did ΔV: Rings of Saturn make?

$237k–$637k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ΔV: Rings of Saturn sell?

Q: How many copies did ΔV: Rings of Saturn sell?

86k to 140k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–140k; $237k–$637k after Steam's cut $431k–$980k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 ΔV: Rings of Saturn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ΔV: Rings of Saturn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 732k–1.5M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like ΔV: Rings of Saturn

A typical game among these

≈ 732k–1.5M copies

≈ $7.6M–$9.9M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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