How much revenue did Souls of Chronos make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Souls of Chronos sell?

Q: How many copies did Souls of Chronos sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 168 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$76k before Steam's cut; from 168 reviews (Mostly 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 Souls of Chronos and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Souls of Chronos's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 783k–1.4M

best case 2.3M (FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION)

Games like Souls of Chronos

A typical game among these

≈ 783k–1.4M copies

≈ $12.8M–$24.4M 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: FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $17.0M–$45.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (8 of 8) and Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + JRPG, priced around $35.
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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