How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY V make?

$310k–$832k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY V sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY V sell?

63k to 102k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 63k–102k; $310k–$832k after Steam's cut $563k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 FINAL FANTASY V and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY V's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 100k–165k

best case 286k (FINAL FANTASY)

Games like FINAL FANTASY V

A typical game among these

≈ 100k–165k copies

≈ $651k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FINAL FANTASY at ≈ 218k–355k copies, ≈ $720k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 532 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $12.
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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FINAL FANTASY 2021	Est. copies ≈ 218k–355k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $720k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$11.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGRPG
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