How much revenue did Black Book make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Black Book sell?

Q: How many copies did Black Book sell?

168k to 272k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 168k–272k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Black Book and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Black Book's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–177k

best case 1.0M (觅长生)

Games like Black Book

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–177k copies

≈ $187k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 觅长生 at ≈ 797k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut.

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 178 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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觅长生 2023	Est. copies ≈ 797k–1.3M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	32k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
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