How much revenue did Killer Gin make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Killer Gin sell?

Q: How many copies did Killer Gin sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 17 reviews (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 Killer Gin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Killer Gin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 639k–2.7M

best case 4.6M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like Killer Gin

A typical game among these

≈ 639k–2.7M copies

≈ $13.1M–$42.2M after Steam's cut

from ~38k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $57.7M–$155.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 71 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (8 of 8) and Anime (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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).

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Persona 4 Golden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	88k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGGreat Soundtrack
Persona 3 Reload 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $26.5M–$71.2M after Steam's cut $48.2M–$109.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	65k reviews Very Positive	JRPGRPG
Persona 5 Royal 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $57.7M–$155.1M after Steam's cut $104.9M–$238.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	141k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPG Story Rich
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