How much revenue did ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE make?

$170k–$456k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE sell?

Q: How many copies did ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 711 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $170k–$456k after Steam's cut $308k–$702k before the cut; from 711 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 ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 621k–1.3M

best case 2.1M (VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action)

Games like ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE

The middle of these games

≈ 621k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.2M–$13.3M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $6.6M–$17.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Visual Novel, priced around $15.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 52 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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