How much revenue did NEKOPARA Vol. 4 make?

$602k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NEKOPARA Vol. 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did NEKOPARA Vol. 4 sell?

219k to 356k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 219k–356k; $602k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 NEKOPARA Vol. 4 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NEKOPARA Vol. 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 438k–1.4M

best case 3.3M (Mirror)

Games like NEKOPARA Vol. 4

A typical game among these

≈ 438k–1.4M copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: Mirror at ≈ 2.6M–4.1M copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 698 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Hentai (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Nudity, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
NEKOPARA Vol. 0 2015	Est. copies ≈ 869k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $715k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$2.99	18k reviews Very Positive	AnimeNudity
Miss Neko 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 119k–193k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $98k–$263k after Steam's cut $178k–$404k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Mirror 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.1M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$1.99	84k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiAnime
Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy 2024	Est. copies ≈ 389k–632k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$12.99	16k reviews Mixed	Sexual ContentHentai
Dark Elf 2017	Est. copies ≈ 167k–272k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 414k–672k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiSexual Content
Action Taimanin 2020	Est. copies ≈ 482k–783k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	19k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity