How much revenue did Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend make?

$440k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend sell?

Q: How many copies did Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend sell?

53k to 87k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 53k–87k; $440k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $800k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–124k

best case 448k (Chrono Ark)

Games like Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–124k copies

≈ $117k–$856k 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: Chrono Ark at ≈ 342k–555k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 505 reviews in their first month; the range was 240 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8) and Card Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Anime, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 36 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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