How much revenue did Castlevania Advance Collection make?

$348k–$935k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castlevania Advance Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did Castlevania Advance Collection sell?

63k to 103k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 63k–103k; $348k–$935k after Steam's cut $632k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Castlevania Advance Collection and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castlevania Advance Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–3.2M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Castlevania Advance Collection

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–3.2M copies

≈ $9.0M–$28.9M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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