How much revenue did 神都不良探 Underdog Detective make?

$156k–$419k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 神都不良探 Underdog Detective sell?

Q: How many copies did 神都不良探 Underdog Detective sell?

71k to 115k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–115k; $156k–$419k after Steam's cut $283k–$645k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 神都不良探 Underdog Detective and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 神都不良探 Underdog Detective's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 240k–687k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like 神都不良探 Underdog Detective

A typical game among these

≈ 240k–687k copies

≈ $904k–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FMV (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Sexual Content, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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