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How many copies did You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 9k–14k
$24k–$66k after Steam's cut $44k–$101k before Steam's cut
from 358 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 You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–9k
best case 262k (Scribble It!)
Games like You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–9k copies

≈ $7k–$18k after Steam's cut

from ~163 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 199k–324k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Typing (6 of 8) and Word Game (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Education + Exploration, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Family Friendly + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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