How much revenue did Gensokyo Night Festival make?

$492k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gensokyo Night Festival sell?

Q: How many copies did Gensokyo Night Festival sell?

138k to 224k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 138k–224k; $492k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $894k–$2.0M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mixed)

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 Gensokyo Night Festival and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gensokyo Night Festival's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 618k–1.6M

best case 2.1M (CONTROL Ultimate Edition)

Games like Gensokyo Night Festival

A typical game among these

≈ 618k–1.6M copies

≈ $4.9M–$19.5M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: CONTROL Ultimate Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $17.7M–$47.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Supernatural + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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Kokoro's Gensokyo Journey: The Lost Masks 2022	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $750–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$9.99	11 reviews Positive	ActionAction-Adventure
CONTROL Ultimate Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.7M–$47.7M after Steam's cut $32.2M–$73.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	65k reviews Very Positive	ActionSupernatural
Touhou Luna Nights 2019	Est. copies ≈ 432k–701k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$17.99	15k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MetroidvaniaDifficult
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ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist 2025	Est. copies ≈ 468k–760k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	19k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania2D
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.9M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	46k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist
ICEY 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.5M before Steam's cut	$10.99	28k reviews Very Positive	ActionFemale Protagonist
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