How much revenue did Near-Mage make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Near-Mage sell?

Q: How many copies did Near-Mage sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 245 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before Steam's cut; from 245 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 Near-Mage and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Near-Mage's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–216k

best case 283k (WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT)

Games like Near-Mage

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–216k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT at ≈ 216k–351k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

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 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Anime, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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