How much revenue did 村庄-The Village make?

$796–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 村庄-The Village sell?

Q: How many copies did 村庄-The Village sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $796–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 村庄-The Village and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 村庄-The Village's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–281k

best case 349k (No Case Should Remain Unsolved)

Games like 村庄-The Village

A typical game among these

≈ 131k–281k copies

≈ $738k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: No Case Should Remain Unsolved at ≈ 266k–433k copies, ≈ $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

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 221 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Detective (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Her Story 2015	Est. copies ≈ 509k–827k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	InvestigationTyping
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