How much revenue did My Beautiful Paper Smile make?

$43k–$117k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Beautiful Paper Smile sell?

Q: How many copies did My Beautiful Paper Smile sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 424 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $43k–$117k after Steam's cut $79k–$179k before the cut; from 424 reviews (Very 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 My Beautiful Paper Smile out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Beautiful Paper Smile's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 710k–1.5M

best case 1.4M (Firework)

Games like My Beautiful Paper Smile

The middle of these games

≈ 710k–1.5M copies

≈ $837k–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: Firework at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 713 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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