How much revenue did DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation sell?

Q: How many copies did DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation sell?

109k to 177k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 109k–177k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.9M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies

≈ $1.1M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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