How much revenue did Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin sell?

Q: How many copies did Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin sell?

142k to 231k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 142k–231k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.9M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–98k

best case 1.7M (Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition)

Games like Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

A typical game among these

≈ 87k–98k copies

≈ $947k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition at ≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies, ≈ $11.0M–$29.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 789 reviews in their first month; the range was 161 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (6 of 8) and Life Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Emotional + Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Emotional + Indie + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 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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