How much revenue did My Koi make?

$24k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Koi sell?

Q: How many copies did My Koi sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 693 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $24k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before Steam's cut; from 693 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 My Koi and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Koi's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.2M

best case 9.2M (theHunter: Call of the Wild™)

Games like My Koi

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.2M copies

≈ $11.9M–$32.8M after Steam's cut

from ~54k 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: theHunter: Call of the Wild™ at ≈ 7.0M–11.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Farming Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Open World.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Russian Fishing 4 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Mixed	FishingMultiplayer
Farming Simulator 25 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	59k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Farming Sim
Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut $15.1M–$34.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	49k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationMultiplayer
Townscaper 2021	Est. copies ≈ 537k–872k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $884k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$5.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExperimentalBuilding
My Singing Monsters 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	50k reviews Very Positive	Creature CollectorSimulation
Planet Zoo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut $63.4M–$144.3M before Steam's cut	$44.99	98k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation