How much revenue did Athenian Rhapsody make?

$38k–$102k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Athenian Rhapsody sell?

Q: How many copies did Athenian Rhapsody sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$157k before Steam's cut; from 371 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 Athenian Rhapsody and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Athenian Rhapsody's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147–6k

best case 15k (Antaria Online)

Games like Athenian Rhapsody

A typical game among these

≈ 147–6k copies

≈ $1k–$31k after Steam's cut

from ~37 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action RPG (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Antaria Online at ≈ 11k–18k copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 29 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (4 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Choose Your Own Adventure.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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