How much revenue did Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 make?

$37k–$99k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 sell?

Q: How many copies did Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 269 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $37k–$99k after Steam's cut $67k–$152k before Steam's cut; from 269 reviews (Mixed)

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 Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187–1k

best case 3k (东方远空界 ~ Ultimate Vitality of Imagination)

Games like Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経

A typical game among these

≈ 187–1k copies

≈ $295–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~9 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 东方远空界 ~ Ultimate Vitality of Imagination at ≈ 2k–4k copies, ≈ $6k–$17k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 41.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (6 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Faith, priced around $10.
When they shipped: Only 1 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 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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