How much revenue did Glaze Cup: Journey to the West make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Glaze Cup: Journey to the West sell?

Q: How many copies did Glaze Cup: Journey to the West sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 178 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$75k before Steam's cut; from 178 reviews (Mostly 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 Glaze Cup: Journey to the West and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Glaze Cup: Journey to the West's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 296k–594k

best case 1.2M (BlazBlue Entropy Effect)

Games like Glaze Cup: Journey to the West

A typical game among these

≈ 296k–594k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: BlazBlue Entropy Effect at ≈ 908k–1.5M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Action-Adventure, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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