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How big is Keylogger: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 223–363
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Keylogger: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Keylogger: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 341k–398k
best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)
Games like Keylogger: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel

A typical game among these

≈ 341k–398k copies

≈ $799k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 853k–1.4M copies, ≈ $349k–$939k 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 113 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Interactive Fiction (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Horror + Experimental; 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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