How much revenue did Arietta of Spirits make?

$74k–$199k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Arietta of Spirits sell?

Q: How many copies did Arietta of Spirits sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 724 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $135k–$306k before Steam's cut; from 724 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 Arietta of Spirits and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Arietta of Spirits's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 387k–451k

best case 3.6M (The Last of Us™ Part I)

Games like Arietta of Spirits

A typical game among these

≈ 387k–451k copies

≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Last of Us™ Part I at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $45.1M–$121.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 601 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Third Person + Action-Adventure + Post-apocalyptic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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