How much revenue did Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 27 reviews (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 Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 219k–305k

best case 2.0M (The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty)

Games like Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel

A typical game among these

≈ 219k–305k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 287 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Historical, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Historical + Cooking + Dating Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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