How much revenue did This Way Madness Lies make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did This Way Madness Lies sell?

Q: How many copies did This Way Madness Lies sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 191 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before Steam's cut; from 191 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 This Way Madness Lies and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including This Way Madness Lies's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 258k–713k

best case 1.5M (FINAL FANTASY® XIII)

Games like This Way Madness Lies

A typical game among these

≈ 258k–713k copies

≈ $1.4M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: FINAL FANTASY® XIII at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (7 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Female Protagonist, priced around $33. The breakout hits carry Fantasy + Story Rich + JRPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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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