How much revenue did Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography make?

$112k–$302k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography sell?

Q: How many copies did Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 825 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $112k–$302k after Steam's cut $204k–$465k before Steam's cut; from 825 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 Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–95k

best case 753k (Police Simulator: Patrol Officers)

Games like Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–95k copies

≈ $544k–$757k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Police Simulator: Patrol Officers at ≈ 574k–933k copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.7M 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 197 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Education (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Crime, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Crime + Investigation + Online Co-Op; 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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