How much revenue did Xuan-Yuan Sword VII make?

$2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Xuan-Yuan Sword VII sell?

Q: How many copies did Xuan-Yuan Sword VII sell?

238k to 386k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 238k–386k; $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.5M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 Xuan-Yuan Sword VII and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Xuan-Yuan Sword VII's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–4.3M

best case 5.9M (Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition)

Games like Xuan-Yuan Sword VII

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–4.3M copies

≈ $16.5M–$36.3M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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.

Best case: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies, ≈ $24.6M–$66.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 773 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Martial Arts (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 3 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 79 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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