How much revenue did Save Me, Sakuya-san! make?

$18k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Save Me, Sakuya-san! sell?

Q: How many copies did Save Me, Sakuya-san! sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 905 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $18k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$76k before Steam's cut; from 905 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Save Me, Sakuya-san! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Save Me, Sakuya-san!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 105k–144k

best case 548k (Carpe Diem)

Games like Save Me, Sakuya-san!

A typical game among these

≈ 105k–144k copies

≈ $47k–$220k 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: Carpe Diem at ≈ 418k–679k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Anime (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Dating Sim + Singleplayer + Mature; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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