How much revenue did Sword and Fairy 3 Ex make?

$31k–$82k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword and Fairy 3 Ex sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword and Fairy 3 Ex sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 560 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $31k–$82k after Steam's cut $55k–$126k before Steam's cut; from 560 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 Sword and Fairy 3 Ex and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword and Fairy 3 Ex's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 379k–2.3M

best case 4.6M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like Sword and Fairy 3 Ex

A typical game among these

≈ 379k–2.3M copies

≈ $2.8M–$16.9M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $57.7M–$155.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, 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 79 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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