How much revenue did A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 make?

$229k–$615k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 sell?

Q: How many copies did A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 sell?

55k to 90k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–90k; $229k–$615k after Steam's cut $416k–$946k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 283k–454k

best case 588k (missed messages.)

Games like A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986

A typical game among these

≈ 283k–454k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: missed messages. at ≈ 448k–728k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 800 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share LGBTQ+ (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + LGBTQ+.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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